Thanks, Moose. The middle one is probably closest. I’ll have a quick go with
PT lens now.
I do try to avoid converging verticals by holding the camera up and keeping it
as vertical as possible.
Chris
> On 22 Sep 2015, at 18:38, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/20/2015 10:31 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>> Philippe
>>
>> Thanks, but I’ll have to bow to your superior discernment (champagne or no
>> ;-)). The old buildings of Lannion might be a little on the lean, or I
>> might not quite be level, it’s difficult to say. I can see from your little
>> edit that there is something different, but I’m not sure that I would have
>> noticed otherwise.
>>
>> I’ve slightly rotated the Lannion shot and cropped out the cars (which I had
>> not noticed before):
>
> Is it possible that you and Philippe are talking at cross purposes? You are
> thinking of lens distortion, "trusting to Mr Fuji’s magic", while I believe
> Philippe is talking about perspective distortion from shooting up at tall
> things. This has nothing to do with the lens and can't be corrected by
> soft/firmware.
>
> The effect is of things getting narrower as they go up, and buildings tend to
> look like they are leaning backward. You can see the effect here even in the
> recently constructed shop fronts. Notice how the windows of the one on the
> left are a parallelogram, not a rectangle.
>
> With a shot like this one, it's hard for someone who wasn't there to know how
> much to correct, vs. over correction. Here are a couple of quick and dirty
> possibilities, if only to make my point clear.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Barker/Lannion.htm
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Barker/Lannion.htm>>
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