CompuServe Messages

Camera Accuracy? I would appreciate any kind of information about 3D Studio's "camera". I have been combining photography and 3D Studio/AutoCad generated images for the past five years, and have noticed that camera "properties" have changed between software versions, and that camera "focal lengths" do not seem to correspond to real world formats. I wish that 3DS's camera behaved more (and sometimes less) like a real camera. I wish that we could switch between standard film formats and that the lens properties would change accordingly. There is a world of difference between the field of view of a 50mm lens on a video camera and a 50 mm lens on a 35mm camera. But in 3D Studio, changing the hieght and width of the output image changes only the vertical field of view–the horizontal field of view always stays the same. I also wish that we could alter the properties of a camera–the way that a person can with a view camera, to "correct" perspective, or even force 2 point perspective. I have lost three prospective (architectural) renderings because we could not frame the desired view without destortions that a "real" illustrator or photographer could easily remedy.