[jsherman999]

Originally Posted by JJJPhoto

I don't think that holds water. If that were true then when I hold my K10D with 28mm lens up to my eye and look through the viewfinder I would see the same perspective as I see if I took the camera away and looked with the same one eye.

I don't.

I see more of the scene with ONE eye than I do with a 28mm lens mounted to my K10D.

Even if i move my head (and eye) forward to where the front element of the lens was I still see a wider field of view than the 28mm lens.

There goes that theory.

I don't think we're talking about FOV (field of view) here, we're talking about relative magnification, right? The human FOV is probably something equivalent to 8mm, with resolution dropping sharply beyond the 50mm (film crop) FOV.

Magnification with a 43mm lens is about exactly what you see, as Gooshin was saying.


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