Collin Brendemuehl wrote on 12/2/2004, 2:29 PM:
> With all this talk about wide angles and distortion ... > > If you watch US pro football on CBS > the broadcast seems to be using a rectilinear lens these days. > The horizontal lines are just too straight and it's especially easy to > see when they shoot from the end zone. > Sort of makes TV look like a video game. > > BTW, rectilinear is a distortion, not the lack of it. It's done to > produce an effect which is not natural to either the human eye's > vision characteristics or to normal lens designs. Funny you should mention that. My wife noticed (and she doesn't like American football, being an Aussie) and commented that it looked like a video game. -- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
