I'm not being closed minded, I'm being correct on the matter. Distortion & abberations are interchangable optical terms. distortion is one particular abberation, a geometry error, i.e a subset of all abberations. Vice versa is not true chromatic abberations, spherical abberations etc, are NOT optical "distortion". They are what they are, those kinds of abberations.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Long zoom recommendations On 18 Oct 2004 at 23:26, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I don't think "outside the box" when "inside the box" is the preferred > method. I cant think of a single instance where I have read > anything regarding optical "distortion" where they were > NOT referring to geometric distortion. The other types > of abberations are called abberations, chromatic, spherical > etc, but they are referred to as abberations, not distortions. > You cant just go "outside the box" because the terms are conventions > and people will not know what the hell you are talking about > if you do "your own thing". > http://www.angelfire.com/biz/Leica/page15.html Surely you can't be that closed minded? Distortions are aberrations. LOL Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
