File:Camera focal length distance house animation.gif

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This computer simulation shows how adjusting a camera's distance and focal length, while keeping the object in frame, can introduce geometric distortions (called foreshortening) into the image. It was rendered in POV-Ray 3.7.0.

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Description	This computer simulation shows how adjusting a camera's distance and focal length, while keeping the object in frame, can introduce geometric distortions (called foreshortening) into the image. It was rendered in POV-Ray 3.7.0.
Date	19 November 2015
Source	Own work. Download source code.
Author	SharkD
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:59, 19 May 2019	512 × 512 (2.64 MB)	Datumizer	Use infinity UTF-8 symbol.
	03:42, 10 November 2016	512 × 512 (3.68 MB)	Datumizer	Reverted to version as of 08:44, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
	02:34, 10 November 2016	512 × 512 (3.8 MB)	Datumizer	Added focal blur.
	08:44, 12 December 2015	512 × 512 (3.68 MB)	Datumizer	Add more frames. Remove duplicate frames. Increase pause at each end of the cycle.
	02:26, 10 December 2015	512 × 512 (2.3 MB)	Datumizer	Forgot to turn radiosity back on.
	01:29, 10 December 2015	512 × 512 (2.2 MB)	Datumizer	Set frames to correspond to increments of 5 degrees.
	07:51, 24 November 2015	512 × 512 (1.85 MB)	Datumizer	Adjust grid to match the other images. Increase precision of measurements to two decimal places.
	13:59, 21 November 2015	512 × 512 (2.13 MB)	Datumizer	Zoom in less far. Speed up animation.
	02:43, 20 November 2015	512 × 512 (2.12 MB)	Datumizer	Nicer render.
	06:00, 19 November 2015	512 × 512 (1.99 MB)	Datumizer	User created page with UploadWizard