This is also why portraits looks crappy with a disposable or low-budget camera. They usually have a fixed, pretty short focal length, around 35 mm, suitable for landscape pictures. OK for tourist photography, but bad for portraits and close ups. Spend some more money on a camera with e.g. a 28-100 mm zoom and you will have a range making it possible to take decent pictures of any kind. Another note on making portraits with long focal lengths: Since this means that the photographer gets further away, the subject might also feel more at ease with the whole photo situation and the pictures come out better, more relaxed. Doesn't matter with Poser figures, but in real life it makes a difference ;-) Why do we have to trick the eye this way when the human eye has a fixed focal length? I don't know, maybe our brain has a way of compensating distorted shapes that occurs when we look at objects at different distances. I'm pretty astigmatic and when I'm not wearing contact lenses or glasses, my brain adjusts for the errors caused by my eyes. If someone else puts on my glasses they will get a distorted view of things and e.g. miss a door handle when they try to grab it. I can do it correctly both with our without glasses since my brain adjusts without me noticing it. Maybe our brains adjusts for perspective problems at different distances as well.