Forgive my ignorance, just trying to clarify in my mind what's being discussed. Is the proposition here, that there is an alternative way to render a 3d image into 2 dimensions than the current convention in photography and painting? If so could I be directed to any examples, particularly in photography, I would imagine examples in painting would be easier and include works such as Picasso, but please enlighten me. With regards painting, I was once told buy my history of art tutor, that early paintings that moved away from straight 2d paintings, and recreated 3d by perspective and shading, were completely perplexing to early audiences, they had to learn as we have to read the representative language, but once learned it's impossible to unlearn, so I assume any alternate perspective would be baffling. With regards normal lenses, I always think a 50mm shows pretty much the area of vision your able to pull reasonable and accurate information from, but a 35 to my mind is a more natural view as it includes your very informative peripheral vision, wider than 35 and the information becomes too vague, so the view of a 28 is more than I can see, but that of course will be subjective. However getting back to the original question, are there other designes of lens that would render perspective differently.
