Comments on: for the want of 40 milimeters http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/ I’m really interested in making photographs about photographing, and photographing life which for me is often about photographing. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Clarence http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1489 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:38:47 +0000 http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1489 That's funny because whenever I imagine my own eyes as a camera's lens, I think of 28mm lenses. Perhaps its the peripheral vision. I read somewhere else that if you wanted to simulate the perspective of a tele lens, you just had to look with one eye closed. Doesn't really work for me. It's actually a university in London: UCL. I'll be posting the shots on my flickr in a few days, once I scan the negatives. I was so disappointed. I made all those lovely yukata turn grey. That’s funny because whenever I imagine my own eyes as a camera’s lens, I think of 28mm lenses. Perhaps its the peripheral vision. I read somewhere else that if you wanted to simulate the perspective of a tele lens, you just had to look with one eye closed. Doesn’t really work for me.

It’s actually a university in London: UCL. I’ll be posting the shots on my flickr in a few days, once I scan the negatives. I was so disappointed. I made all those lovely yukata turn grey.

]]> by: John http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1488 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:28:37 +0000 http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1488 I thought I read somewhere that the human eye is about the same in focal length as a 43mm lens-- Hence the Natural part. I too shot with (shoot with as well) a 28mm lens- and just recently a 135mm lens on my nikon. It is fun to try out new things and see what can be done with them. I have developed any rolls or printed any prints yet from this lens but will do so soon. where was your college's Japan Day? UNL? I thought I read somewhere that the human eye is about the same in focal length as a 43mm lens– Hence the Natural part. I too shot with (shoot with as well) a 28mm lens- and just recently a 135mm lens on my nikon. It is fun to try out new things and see what can be done with them. I have developed any rolls or printed any prints yet from this lens but will do so soon.

where was your college’s Japan Day? UNL?

]]> by: Clarence http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1487 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:15:26 +0000 http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2006/02/23/for-the-want-of-40-milimeters/#comment-1487 Hello, I've been struggling with focal lengths and perspective as well. I once rejected the so-called 'standard' 50mm (or in medium format, 80mm) focal length after being forced to use it and nothing else for over a year, because I only owned a 50mm lens. Then I became enamoured with wide-angle and tele lenses, because the former pulled the surroundings into the frame to envelope the viewer, and the latter could surgically extract the subject from everything else around it. And now I'm waiting for an Olympus 35 SP (it's on its way), and the fixed lens's focal length is 42mm, which I think is closer to 50mm than 35mm. I don't know if it's any more "Normal and Natural" than 50mm, or it'll suit me, but I think it'll be challenging to try and explore this middle ground. Clarence PS: On a side note, I was taking photos at my college's recent Japan Day, but I had completely forgot to bring the slide film. All I had were 3 rolls of Neopan. I thought it made everything look very valerian. Hello,

I’ve been struggling with focal lengths and perspective as well. I once rejected the so-called ’standard’ 50mm (or in medium format, 80mm) focal length after being forced to use it and nothing else for over a year, because I only owned a 50mm lens. Then I became enamoured with wide-angle and tele lenses, because the former pulled the surroundings into the frame to envelope the viewer, and the latter could surgically extract the subject from everything else around it.

And now I’m waiting for an Olympus 35 SP (it’s on its way), and the fixed lens’s focal length is 42mm, which I think is closer to 50mm than 35mm. I don’t know if it’s any more “Normal and Natural” than 50mm, or it’ll suit me, but I think it’ll be challenging to try and explore this middle ground.

Clarence

PS: On a side note, I was taking photos at my college’s recent Japan Day, but I had completely forgot to bring the slide film. All I had were 3 rolls of Neopan. I thought it made everything look very valerian.

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