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Re: [OM] Brittany holidays - Chris B

Subject: Re: [OM] Brittany holidays - Chris B
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:38:18 -0700
On 9/20/2015 10:31 AM, ChrisB wrote:
Philippe

Thanks, but I’ll have to bow to your superior discernment (champagne or no ;-)).  The old 
buildings of Lannion might be a little on the lean, or I might not quite be level, it’s 
difficult to say.  I can see from your little edit that there is something different, but I’m 
not sure that I would have noticed otherwise.

I’ve slightly rotated the Lannion shot and cropped out the cars (which I had 
not noticed before):

Is it possible that you and Philippe are talking at cross purposes? You are thinking of lens distortion, "trusting to Mr Fuji’s magic", while I believe Philippe is talking about perspective distortion from shooting up at tall things. This has nothing to do with the lens and can't be corrected by soft/firmware.

The effect is of things getting narrower as they go up, and buildings tend to look like they are leaning backward. You can see the effect here even in the recently constructed shop fronts. Notice how the windows of the one on the left are a parallelogram, not a rectangle.

With a shot like this one, it's hard for someone who wasn't there to know how much to correct, vs. over correction. Here are a couple of quick and dirty possibilities, if only to make my point clear. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Barker/Lannion.htm>

On the Up and Up Moose

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