Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/05

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Subject: [Leica] 16-16-15 lens comparison
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Mon Nov 5 00:04:52 2007
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At 6:48 PM -0800 11/4/07, Douglas Herr wrote:
>Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>>Barrel distortion, the heartbreak of BD can be easily remedied now a days 
>>in
>>Photoshop. You can not read a lens review anymore without the guy, Thom H,
>>or Ken R. telling you the exact coordinates to punch in to take out the
>>barrel distortion that a new nikon zoom will have at a certain focal length
>>(FL).
>
>In doing this isn't the effective angle of view reduced?
>
>

When you correct for pincushion distortion the diagonal angle of view 
is reduced; when you correct for barrel distortion the diagonal angle 
of view is increased.

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