On 12 Feb 2003 at 7:47, Paul Franklin Stregevsky wrote: > I own Capturing the Moment, the Newseum's collection of all > Pulitzer-prize-winning photos from the 1940s to the late 1990s. In several > of the photos that had been shot in crowded scenes with a 20 or a 24, there is > no tell-tale line convergence or curvature at the edges. That tells me these > photos were cropped.
Hi Paul, If images from your wide angle lenses are exhibiting curvature at the edges then they are poor lenses (I'm assuming that this is how you derived your opinion?). Perspective distortion will render straight lines straight wherever they lie in the frame. If a scene is shot wide where all subjects in the frame are a distance away (5 metres plus) perspective distortion isn't very noticeable, only when subjects are up close (a metre or less for 20 or 24mm) does the perspective distortion become really apparent. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
