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    Re: 4x5 lenses: telephoto and portraiture

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Salomon View Post
    It means the camera is focused on an object closer then infinity but less then life size or near life size or ½ life size. Infinity is defined in the dictionary.
    If you're going to go with the dictionary definition, no subject can ever be "at infinity", so all objects are closer than infinity.

    Or, if you believe in a curved universe, everything is already at infinity-- eventually.


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    Re: 4x5 lenses: telephoto and portraiture

    Quote Originally Posted by grat View Post
    If you're going to go with the dictionary definition, no subject can ever be "at infinity", so all objects are closer than infinity.

    Or, if you believe in a curved universe, everything is already at infinity-- eventually.

    Considering the forum we are looking at the photographic definition. Why think anything else?

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