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Why do angular size calculations use 70 degrees instead of 50 degrees?
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DontTalkDT said this:
"The human eye works in very strange ways. Despite the eyes technically having such a large FoV if one used a camera with such a large FoV to make pictures the pictures would look unnatural for us. (See Fisheye Lens)
For a long time there was a rule of thumb amongst photographers that a lens that produces a picture that looks "natural" to us has a FoV of around 40 ┬░. In recent trends that may change, though. For example the iPhone X uses a camera with a 65┬░ horizontal FoV and still looks natural.
(Source: "How To" by Randall Munroe)
Not sure where 70 ┬░ exactly came from. It's one of the OBD artifacts in our calcs. It doesn't seem too wrong, though, given the above."
He also said this:
"The thing is, things will be drawn or recorded in the way a camera perceives it, as the result is supposed to be a good looking picture. The result is not a visual stimuli send directly into our brain, where a FoV matching our eyes would look better.
For instance, our eyes also perceive things in a very different way regarding resolution:
However, nobody would draw a picture in the way our eyes actually see it. Everybody would draw it like a camera does."
"The human eye works in very strange ways. Despite the eyes technically having such a large FoV if one used a camera with such a large FoV to make pictures the pictures would look unnatural for us. (See Fisheye Lens)
For a long time there was a rule of thumb amongst photographers that a lens that produces a picture that looks "natural" to us has a FoV of around 40 ┬░. In recent trends that may change, though. For example the iPhone X uses a camera with a 65┬░ horizontal FoV and still looks natural.
(Source: "How To" by Randall Munroe)
Not sure where 70 ┬░ exactly came from. It's one of the OBD artifacts in our calcs. It doesn't seem too wrong, though, given the above."
He also said this:
"The thing is, things will be drawn or recorded in the way a camera perceives it, as the result is supposed to be a good looking picture. The result is not a visual stimuli send directly into our brain, where a FoV matching our eyes would look better.
For instance, our eyes also perceive things in a very different way regarding resolution:
However, nobody would draw a picture in the way our eyes actually see it. Everybody would draw it like a camera does."
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