Timeline for What's the difference between zooming in on a subject vs moving closer?
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:59 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | @Pac: The nose would be large relative to other facial features. If you took a series of portraits at different focal lengths and kept the eyes at the same points in all pictures, then the nose (being closer to the camera) would be larger in the pictures taken with shorter focal length. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | Pacerier | @OlinLathrop, Re "which causes the subject's nose to appear unusually large", but wouldn't you minimize the final photo until it is the same size as what you would have had you used the zoom function? | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | @Michael: Yes, that's what I meant, but worded it badly. Hopefully it's clearer now. Clabacchio also has a good point in that many zoom lenses have a larger maximum aperture at the wide angle end than at the telephoto end. | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 13:44 | history | edited | Olin Lathrop | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2014 at 7:28 | comment | added | clabacchio | @MichaelT I believe he means that most lenses have a variable aperture in the zoom range and thus shorter focal lengths will allow using the largest. | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | user13451 | I believe you mean slower shutter speeds for your final paragraph - that a 24mm lens can be handheld at 1/30th of a second while a 50mm lens would require 1/60th of a second. It's not that it allows faster shutter speeds (minimum speed for handheld ≈ 1/focal length). | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | tenmiles | I would like to add that moving closer, all other things being the same, and focusing on the same object, will yield a more shallow depth of field. This can be advantageous in portraits or sports, but disadvantageous when shooting groups of people. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:49 | vote | accept | Victor | ||
| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:34 | history | answered | Olin Lathrop | CC BY-SA 3.0 |