Somewhere someone (maybe Bagginsbill?) had a formula for figuring out real world lens focal length for the cameras in Poser.

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FOV equivalent

PoserMM * 1.41732283465 = Traditional 35mm film camera

If you desire the FOV of exactly what a real-world 35mm camera would show using a X mm lens, divide by 1.41732283465

So to produce same FOV as a traditional 50mm you would use 35.28 in Poser.

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Took me a moment to find the original thread archive.

The reason is that Poser simulates (who knows why) that its film is 1 inch (25.4 mm). The ratio to a 35mm camera is 36/25.4

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Thanks BB! gotta write that down now.

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This maybe a slight hijack but does anyone have any suggested settings for a) human eyes b) GoPro camera

I'm thinking the 'sensor' area would be smaller and would need the camera scaling down as well as focal length

Thanks in advance

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@ ypvs 50mm focal length with a 35mm sensor is considered roughly equvalent to human vision

Gopro 7 2.92mm equivalent to 16.21mm on a 35mm camera.

ypvs posted at 8:20AM Sat, 07 March 2020 - #4382808

This maybe a slight hijack but does anyone have any suggested settings for a) human eyes b) GoPro camera

I'm thinking the 'sensor' area would be smaller and would need the camera scaling down as well as focal length

Thanks in advance

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typical iPhone focal would be around 18.34mm in Poser.

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Maybe it's just me? But a "Poser" focal length of 35mm just looks "off" to me, especially in closeups on the face. Having used an analogue SLR camera for the last 40 years, I just "feel" that the Poser FL values are far more closer to what I would get in my old (antique?) Pentax camera. So I still use the standard:

• 35 mm for landscape
• 55 mm for snapshots
• 85 mm for portraits
• 105(+) mm for zoom

and to my eye the resulting renders look realistic enough compared with what I would expect from a 35 mm film analogue camera.

regards, Peter

P.S. @ Ghostship:

"Eyephones" don't count - they live in their own twisted reality :P )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_mLj8Edgc

pikesPit posted at 9:30PM Sat, 07 March 2020 - #4382860

Maybe it's just me? But a "Poser" focal length of 35mm just looks "off" to me, especially in closeups on the face. Having used an analogue SLR camera for the last 40 years, I just "feel" that the Poser FL values are far more closer to what I would get in my old (antique?) Pentax camera. So I still use the standard:

• 35 mm for landscape
• 55 mm for snapshots
• 85 mm for portraits
• 105(+) mm for zoom

and to my eye the resulting renders look realistic enough compared with what I would expect from a 35 mm film analogue camera.

regards, Peter

P.S. @ Ghostship:

"Eyephones" don't count - they live in their own twisted reality :P )

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