On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:29:28 -0500, Collin Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Yeah, I've noticed, and I don't like it. For one thing, it makes the field look waaaay too short. And, yes, I thought the same thing as you: looks like a video game. Doesn't enhance the viewing experience, to my mind. Oh well, no one asked me. Seems that it's just a gimmick along the lines of "we're doing it because we can, not because it's better or anything." cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
