Monday, 15 May 2017

terminology - What is an ultra-wide lens?


What is the point at which a lens is considered "ultra-wide angle" vs just wide angle?



Answer



Wikipedia says lenses below 24mm focal length (in 35mm-equivalent) are considered ultra-wide. Personally I'd say that the field of view becomes ultra-wide when people near the border of the picture start to look significantly wrong.



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