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Lenses on Crop Sensor Cameras and Distortions

Started May 19, 2015 | Questions thread
J A C S
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Re: Lenses on Crop Sensor Cameras and Distortions
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hanhasgotqi wrote:

J A C S wrote:

If you want to minimize those distortions, choose longer FL's or do not allow people near the borders. Another option is to use software correcting "volume anamorphic distortions" like DXO's ViewPoint. See this, for example. I use it often and the effect is very nice.

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To JACS, I am guessing the example you linked to is a kind of barrel distortion? Am I right in saying it is inherent in most wide angle lenses?

No, it is natural "distortion" most visible with wide lenses near the border. Barrel distortion would actually make it look better!

Line up three bottles, shoot them with a wide lens filling the frame, and even if the lens is perfectly rectilinear, the bottles near the edges will look visibly fatter. Replace the bottles with a picture of three bottles, and they will look the same!

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