[Leica] #395

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Ted, please excuse for a neophyte question - if I understand it correctly, 
if the camera is level horizontally, vertically and front end back, then 
the so called distortion do not occur. That's what you are saying right?

How about even in that case, but the lines in the view are diagonals etc.? 
Aren't the distortions, when it happens, most acute in the corners?

At 09:05 AM 11/17/2005, Ted Grant wrote:
....
>There isn't any distortion because of a super wide lens like this.... 
>"when the camera and lens are correctly used!" I suppose one might say, 
>"well there's distortion because the angle is so wide."  Of course that's 
>nonsense, as long as the camera and lens are perfectly correct, all the 
>lens does is give one a different point of view and seeing.
>
>Distortion occurs because the photographer doesn't hold or mount the 
>camera correctly. That's one of the reasons I have a small level in my 
>camera bag to put on top of the camera , usually the hot shoe to make sure 
>the camera is right on the mark straight.

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