Wide-angle lens

In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens is a lens whose focal length is shorter than the focal length of a normal lens. For a 35 mm camera with a 24 by 36 mm format, the normal lens is 50 mm. A lens of focal length 35 mm or less is considered wide-angle.

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Photography - Cinematography - Lens - Focal length - Normal lens - 35 mm - Camera - Mm

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In addition to giving a wider angle of view, the resulting image can also have perspective distortion.

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Angle of view - Perspective distortion

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Common wide-angle lenses for a 35 mm camera are 35, 28, 24, 20, 17 and 14 mm.

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35 mm - Camera

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These lenses will give a rectilinear projection.

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Extreme wide-angle lenses normally do not give a geometric projection, and are called fisheye lenses. Common focal lengths for a 35 mm camera are 6 to 8 mm (will give a circular image), and 15 or 16 mm (will give a curvilinear, full-frame, image).

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Projection - Fisheye lens - Camera

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