On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John A. Lind wrote:
>>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=380427&a=9125406&p=31228289&Sequence=0&res=high
>>note round bottle/jug/whatever it is called at extreme right...it's not
>>round. note edge of shed at right, it is straight! what's going
>>on? cropped from left so you can't see it on that side.
>
>In the extreme right corner, the base of the bottle looks oval, as well it
>should in an extreme corner. This is normal rectilinear lens
>behavior. The shorter the lens, the more noticeable it becomes.
>However
>the right vertical edge of the bottle looks to show some pincushion. I
>would expect that edge to be straight and just the base with an oval.
yes! now that you mention it, i see it.
>Hard
>to really tell as it looks like you may not have had the camera level so
>the lens axis would be perpendicular to the window blinds. The edge lines
>do look straight.
again, closer inspection shows i didn't have the camera level (i was
shooting in the dark, guesstimated tripod leveling on uneven dirt,
shooting into a shed, bounced flash from ceiling @f/8 or so.
the more i looke at it, the more the edge seems to bow in; power of
suggestion or staring too much or what? hehehe...
>I believe that pincshion and barrel can be mitigated with the lens stopped
>down, in which the diaphragm blocks ray paths around the edge of the
>lens. Gotta think it through more about what happens optically under those
>conditions.
lens was definitely at f8 (or f/5.6 or f11) since this was close
distance on 400 speed film (tri x)
>Wayne is right about the possibility of aberrations being introduced during
>printing and/or scanning . . . something I had not thought of. We have a
>scanner at work that tends to tilt images, and one must sometimes rotate an
>image back to get vertical lines parallel vertical image edges.
dind't think of that... will try to scan a graph paper and see what
happens. scanner is epson perfection 636u
/Acer V
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