| | David Ruether - Lens Distortion and Perspective-Correction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | It turns out that we see in spherical (curved) perspective, with the same advantages for keeping tilting and swinging points of view from being unsettling, for maintaining more consistent-looking near-to-far distance proportion relationships, and for showing kinder representations of rounded objects (like people) near the image edges than a very wide angle "rectangular-perspective" view would. |
 | | The top frame shows the original, with obvious linear distortion showing; the other two are frames with different amounts of correction applied in Adobe Premiere. |
 | | In order to maintain as much as possible of the original horizontal angle of view, fl bits appear at the top and bottom of the "corrected" frames - but much of this is masked when viewed on a TV (it can also be covered, using the "Clip" video filter, making a slightly "letter-boxed" framing). |
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