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Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 12:41:56 No.4362601 View View Reply Original Report

i have this camera, sony exmor 20.4 megapixels
but i have an issue that whenver i take a photo of someone they look way fatter than they are? i even held the camera to my right while looking at the person and it looks wrong, not at all how they look irl
what is wrong? i am not a professional photographer by any means so i set it to superior auto usually

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 13:43:20 No.4362610 Report

Quoted By: >>4362613 >>4362622

>>4362601
Stop shooting with the lens zoomed out to full width focal length. Zoom in to 50mm to 75mm equivalent focal length for shooting portraits. Hopefully Sony had their head out of thier ass when desiging the camera and gave it a mm focal length indicator for the zoom.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 13:49:18 No.4362613 Report

Quoted By: >>4362622

>>4362610
>Hopefully Sony had their head out of thier ass when desiging the camera and gave it a mm focal length indicator for the zoom.
Jej

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 14:26:45 No.4362622 Report

Quoted By: >>4362693

>>4362610
>>4362613
i can zoom in and out but i don't know how to reduce the focal length? the lense just sticks out whenever i use it and i don't know how to make it retract

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 14:29:34 No.4362623 Report

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>>4362601
also it seems to look fine when i use the video recording, it's only still images

Oznonymous

Oznonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 18:01:01 No.4362693 Report

Quoted By: >>4362733

>>4362622
Focal length is your "zoom". When you zoom in you are raising your focal length; your field of view is tighter. When you zoom out you are lowering it; your FoV is wider.

50mm is what we consider normal or 1x zoom. Portraits are often best taken around the 80-100mm focal length. If there is no indicator you're a bit out of luck outside of going off feel

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:11:24 No.4362733 Report

Quoted By: >>4362736 >>4362741

>>4362693
ah that's fucked
it only shows numbers like 1 2 and goes up to x55 with the zoom

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:17:59 No.4362736 Report

Quoted By: >>4362741 >>4362742 >>4362913

>>4362733
Go as close to x30 zoom.
That's the limit of "optical zoom" so the far end of the zoom range of that lens, which seems to be 4.3 mm to 129 mm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:27:41 No.4362741 Report

Quoted By: >>4362913

>>4362733
>>4362736
Nevermind, that's not 35mm full frame equiv and that thing only has a 1/2.3" sensor.
You want to shoot at 3x to 5x zoom, that's 73 mm to 121 mm full frame equivalent.
7x zoom will take you to 170 mm.
30x zoom is 728 mm equivalent.
You can calculate these yourself using any crop factor calculator, converting from 1/2.3" sensor to 35mm full frame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:28:22 No.4362742 Report

Quoted By: >>4362745

>>4362736
>Get as close to 720mm
anon pls

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:30:11 No.4362745 Report

Quoted By: >>4362746 >>4362917

>>4362742
It says Sony on the body, I expected FF, or APS-C at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Sep 2024 20:40:24 No.4362746 Report

Quoted By: >>4362915

>>4362745
Pocket snapshitters were all they built until they bought minolta

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 06:53:48 No.4362913 Report

Quoted By: >>4362917

>>4362736
>>4362741
i guess i'll need to keep fucking with it till i get a good picture, you said x3 is 73 so i guess i'll start from there and aim for 80

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 07:03:12 No.4362915 Report

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>>4362746
It’s weird, because they also made some bangers like the r1 and the 717/828, but never really took those further. Not enough sales success i guess

Oznonymous

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Oznonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 07:06:02 No.4362917 Report

Quoted By: >>4363539

>>4362745
Sony (Snoy) is just the brand. Most camera makers have products in different gear markets. What you have is basically a point and shoot. Sensors in these are often measured in fractions of an inch, up to one whole inch. Don't obsess over gear too much as you're more concerned about the end result. Bigger sensors get you less noise and better dynamic range, but what's important right now is that focal distances are geared for 35mm full frame sensors, and you will often get the "equivalent" focal distance by multiplying by the crop factor. There are calculators online for this kind of math.

>>4362913
Don't worry about it. Take photo. 3-4x sounds about right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Sep 2024 06:54:12 No.4363539 Report

Quoted By: >>4363573

>>4362917
i tried at x3 and it looked way better, holy shit
thank you so much anon

Oznonymous

Oznonymous Mon 23 Sep 2024 08:25:33 No.4363573 Report

Quoted By: >>4363580

>>4363539
So the actual theory behind it is that the further away you are from your subject, the more you get to see as your vision (or the lens' ) wraps around the subject more. If you are too close, you only see the front and not enough of the side of your subject, coupled with the fact that lenses often have distortion at their widest focal lengths, you can get that weird "fat" look you were talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Sep 2024 08:47:27 No.4363580 Report

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>>4363573
thank you anon, i never knew about this stuff
always thought it's best to zoom out didn't know that would cause that fat effect

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