Camera Raw 6.5 - Lens Corrections

Hello: I know a 50mm lens is more commonly used for portrait shots but I like that I can be "POSITIONED CLOSER" to the subject when using a 35mm lens. Camera Raw 6.5 >Lens Corrections >Profile Make and Model and Profile, recognizes both of my lenses. My question is . . . can Camera Raw 6.5 "PROFESSIONALLY" eliminate the "distortion advantage" a 50mm lens has over a 35mm lens or am I still better off using the 50mm lens ? Thank-you, MLR

Rick McCleary wrote:
A lens does not have perspective.
Perspective is a function of the distance from viewer to subject.
Perspective is completely independent of lens, camera, or the clothes you're wearing; it's determined only by the point in space from which a subject is viewed.
Perhaps technically correct but not practically relevent...
While it's true that the "perspective" is dictated on the distance from camera to subject, in practical terms if you fill the frame with the exact same subject size, the viewpoint (and hence the "perspective") will be different...
As a result a full frame face shot with a 35MM vs a 50MM lens will indeed have a different perspective. As indicated by the OP, a face will elongate with a full frame shot of a face taken with a 35MM lens vs a longer lens. This is the practical impact of focal length. The longer the lens the more confessed the perspective.
And this has zero to do with "lens distortions" which are a technical defect  of the optical properties of a lens such as barrel distortion, CS and vignetting.
The lens dictates the point of view of the image…a wide angle lens will have a forced perspective while a longer lens congresses the perspective. ACR can correct for barrel distortion, CS and vignetting but nothing relating to perspective.

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