Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] pincusion
From: "Birkey" <dbirkey@uio.telconet.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:20:38 -0500

What's worse if it has a bit of both....

One really noticeable place besides some types of architectural photography
is along the ocean or lakes where you have a nice straight horizon in your
picture...

I had a lens that made a ocean horizon look more like a flattened rounded
W.... a round hump in the middle and then it curved up again at the edges...
Did that ever make the ocean look weird....

But then again......it wasn't a Leica lens......

Duane Birkey
HCJB World Radio
Quito Ecuador
Duane's Photographs of Ecuador:
http://duane_birkey.tripod.com

Ted wrote:

> Dan & Guys,
> Honest,  I'm not trying to be factious or a smart ass,  but what is "pin
cushion
> distortion" and how do you recognize it when shooting a building burning
down? Hell,  I
> don't even know what it is to start with let alone where and how it might
effect my
> pictures. Nor what to look for.
>