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

Started Feb 17, 2022 | Questions thread
john Clinch
john Clinch Veteran Member • Posts: 4,755
Re: Help! My Fuji 16 B mm f1.4 is really distorted
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All we are seeing her is a good rectilinear projection.

There is no perfect way for a wide angle lens to show the world. But rectilinear works best in most situations for a single shot

The rectilinear projection will maintain verticals as vertical and horizontals as horizontal with the camera level. This normally looks correct but in reality the scene looks nothing like this

Imagine standing in front of a really long fence on a flat plane. You take a really wide angle shot with camera level and perpendicular to the fence

you look at the shot and see the top and bottom of the fence as parallel just like you hoped

but that’s makes no sense. Say the nearest post in the fence is 10 feet away. The posts at the edge of the shot might be 20 feet away. So if they are twice as far away the posts should be half the height. That’s crazy you shout at the lens. But the Lens says “but you wanted the top and bottom parallel and straight. So I lied about the post height it’s the only way. “ That’s why your bowl got bigger as you moved it to the edge of the frame

PS you didn’t see it in the cheaper lens as you were less stressed as it cost less

PPS with modern software you can shoot with lenses as wide as you like for panos

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