Mastering The Wide-Angle

Exploring with the wide end of the focal spectrum opens up a world of creative compositional possibilities

Mike Stensvold

Published August 1, 2006
Updated October 17, 2016

My high-school chemistry teacher’s favorite phrase was "Everything is relative" and so it is with wide-angle lenses. A lens of a given focal length can be wide-angle, normal or even telephoto. It depends on the format of the camera on which you’re using it. The larger the film frame (or image sensor), the wider a given focal length’s angle of view.

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