what mm lens was this shot with?

Madweasel wrote in post #8098926
Just not what you said.

What did I say.

p.s. people are still voting and now that same poll is close to 40%

You said from the same distance.

The guy made a point, why are you hounding him?

50% of the people that answered the poll didn't know what lens it was, there fore 50% of the people that answered the poll would have no idea what lens to use to either get a similar picture, or avoid a similar picture. Yet they would happily take the picture and be proud of it.

enginyr i think if you read the topic:
Perspective Control in Images - Focal Length or Distance? (a tutorial)
you can retry the experiment with better result.

In this way you may get more satisfaction.

For me the distortions of the face were obvious.

Note:
When creating the survey specify the time limit for votes.

Well my point is that the idea behind what someone THINKS the focal lens of a lens was when a photo was taken completely stupid and arbitrary.

If we had the subject in real life in front of us than shown a picture of the same subject and ask "what FL was used?" Ok, I can give you a good guess without that original "base" information or something to give it a perspective, there is no point.

It's like asking how tall the a tree is from a picture with nothing else in the image to give you perspective.

"Remember that focal length does not cause distortion. Being very close to your subject does"

courtesy of wilt and alessandro.

alessandro2009 wrote in post #8101500
For me the distortions of the face were obvious.

Same here.