Comment by deadbeeves

The article is close, but doesn't quite get there. The problem is not the image itself or how it's taken, but rather how it's displayed. When you look at the world through your eyeballs, your brain recreates the scene so that it wraps around an imaginary point in mental space, so to speak. Things that are to your right "appear to your right" in your mind. When you're looking at a photograph, regardless of how much field of view it was taken with, it's displayed in a very small portion of your entire field of vision, even if you're looking at it on a computer monitor; it's even worse if you're looking at it on a phone. You're basically always looking at it zoomed out. It would be possible to recreate the scene exactly as it would have appeared if your eye was where the camera was when the photo was taken, but you'd need to blow it up on a huge screen, like a movie theater screen, and stand fairly close to it. Then you'd be able to see that actually most lenses other than fisheyes have fairly narrow field of views.