Regretting buying this 14mm now that I got it

Started 3 months ago | Discussion thread
Al Valentino
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Re: Mystified by your reaction
In reply to sgoldswo, 3 months ago

sgoldswo wrote:

Al Valentino wrote:

sgoldswo wrote:

Here is a shot from this week (which doesn't look to me like it has issues).

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Just for fun I corrected the keystoning from your perspective in Photoshop. Very easy to do, took about 30 seconds but I have been doing this sort of wide correction for a long time. I hate the look of a building ready to backwards

Cheers Al - fair enough (perhaps I should have said "other than issues created by the user" )! I've played with the keystone tool in C1 but I never got excited enough about the results to use it. Your result from photoshop may persuade me to persevere...

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There are no other issues created by the user. You did a perfect job. If you want straighter out of the camera you would need to be further away with a longer focal length and ideally raised up to midway in height.

However, the user could have easily have created issues if the camera was slightly rotated. In that case the correction would be two steps, the other involving rotation. With wide angle work those gridlines in the viewfinder are critical as is centering... Since you had the orientation spot on the correction was simple

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