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Help! My Fuji 16mm f1.4 is really distorted

Started Feb 17, 2022 | Questions thread
Travelerdave Regular Member • Posts: 183
Re: Help! My Fuji 16mm f1.4 is really distorted
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As everyone has said already, it is all about perspective, and camera angle.

Apart from that, the idea that a wide lens dose not distort is fiction.  In that to produce an image that has, shall we say straight verticals at the side of frame, the image is actually distorted to achieve this. The type of image formed by a fisheye lens is in fact a true representation of the view the lens can gather from that position with that angle of view. Items to the side of the view, that are in line with ones at the center, are further away, and therefore smaller.

The corrections for this in wide lenses will differ between lenses, and they are for the most part, the best the designer can achieve.

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