What is angle of view in photography?

Answer 1

All lenses for cameras have a field of view. If you hold a lens up to a white piece of paper and move it back and forth until the image is sharp you will see a round image which is sharp in the middle and then falls off towards the edges. (This should be done in a darkened room.) The area which is sharpest is the angle of view. What you get will depend on each lens. For example a wide angle lens will see a greater amount of area because it has a wide angle of view where as a tele lens has a small angle of view. However all the lenses must fit the cameras film size.

Answer 2

This is when a different view is taken upon an object or picture. Eg. Worms eye view can make the subject appear bigger or more powerful while birds eye view can make something look smaller or helpless.