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Originally Posted by TheMentat
It's cool how those photos really illustrate how wide the apertures were in some of those photos, leaving a really narrow focal depth... particularly this one:
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Large format cameras like a 8x10 view camera use a 300 MM lens as the "normal" lens. Equivalent to a 50MM lens on a 35 mm film camera. Many portraits were shot with longer focal length lenses to avoid being to close to the subject.
Focus is super critical on large format cameras. It is easy to have a sharp focus on the eyes and have the tip of the nose and the ears of the subject out of focus.