I have tried to scale a camera before when testing the limits
of POVRay and I couldn't tell that the scale statement did any
more than change the cameras position when the camera was not
at the <0,0,0> coordinates. But, in these tests I never did use 
a non uniform scale, so I don't know yet.

I would hope that the camera could be a "special" object type
that like lightsources, would only pick up the location/orientation
information from the objects they are unioned with. I certainly 
don't think that picking up any normal{} information in the
"lens" would be a good thing.



Warp wrote:
> 
> Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> : Like a point light-source?
> 
>   A point light-source has no dimensions, while a camera has.
> 
>   If a scale command in the union only changes the location of the camera,
> then it would be contradictory to what happens if the same scale command
> is inside the camera statement.
>   If the scale command in the union affects the camera in the same way as
> if it was inside the camera-statement (ie. the camera geometry is changed
> accordingly), that may not be what people usually want.
> 
>   So it's not such a trivial question.
> 
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