Photographs in sales particulars

ANewUser08

To be fair to agents it's not to be misleading (ok, for some of them it probably is) but as @user1977 says it's to fit in more of a room. Have you tried taking a photo of a room with your phone for example? Wide angle lets you see various walls, doors, floors and ceilings in one image. Also, it's no use to mislead people as it will waste the agent's time meeting someone at a property and going through the rigmarole for them to say say "thank you but the rooms are too small and looked bigger online...". Listings will have a floor plan and room measurements on so you can make your own judgement before deciding to view

theoretica

Similar to you it took me a few viewings of properties to learn to 'read' particulars and get less surprised about how the property looked when I arrived.

Justonemorecupoftea

I'd much rather have say one photo wide angle then a number of photos of the room with a "normal" camera. I also like to see hallways, landings etc. I know they're not particularly sexy spaces but it helps me to understand how a house works together and is a useful reminder following viewings.

A few places around here have started doing 3d photography tours which is useful, but I have to be conscious not to directly compare with staged photos as they don't look that impressive. The best one I saw had a pile of shoes in a spot I guess they thought wouldn't be caught by the camera...

AdrianC

Yoof of today, don't know they're born, etc...

First house we bought, the "sales details" were a double-sided sheet of A4, with two small colour prints glued to it - an external view, and a living room shot that mostly showed the furniture. No floorplan. And this was damn near the minnellium.

Now people complain at 20 pics and 3d-floorplans...

NaughtiusMaximus

user1977 said:

If they didn't use wide angle lenses then they wouldn't be able to fit as much of the room in the photo,

You are allowed to take more than one photo of each room.

user1977 said:

it's not just a cunning ploy to make the rooms look bigger. 

Yes it is.

NameUnavailable

AdrianC said:

Yoof of today, don't know they're born, etc...

First house we bought, the "sales details" were a double-sided sheet of A4, with two small colour prints glued to it - an external view, and a living room shot that mostly showed the furniture. No floorplan. And this was damn near the minnellium.

Now people complain at 20 pics and 3d-floorplans...

Yes, when I was an agent back in the 80's that was pretty standard. Just an outside shot unless it was an unusual property or very expensive - they we'd take some interior shots as well. We were a bit better than most of our local competitors as we had self adhesive colour photos we'd stick on the details (not a crumby photocopied image).

Sandtree

In my experience, most estate agents are using the cheaper end of the camera range. A consequence of this is that they need to use an even wider lens to get a room in because of the smaller sensor size which  effectively crops the photo and so the wide angle effect is acerbated. 

In an ideal world there would be a full frame sensor with a tilt and shift lens but its vastly more expensive, requires more skills to use and probably a lower hit rate unless you're exceptionally well practiced.

Davesnave

Many of the photos one sees in magazines have been altered to make views/things/people seem more conventionally attractive than they are. It's not just Meghan and EAs who are manipulators!