Techniques / What Is Optical Distortion And How Does It Affect Your Images? Confused by pincushion distortion and barrel distortion, or want to know what chromatic aberration, purple fringing, and ...

Figure 1. Shown here is the same degree of pincushion (a positive geometric distortion) for a 4:3 aspect ratio image and a 16:9 aspect ratio image. The percentage of distortion is visibly greater in ...

Venus Optics, the manufacturer behind the ‘Laowa’ branded camera lenses, have recently launched two unique wide angle prime lenses with a unique ‘Zero-D’ feature. ‘Zero-D’ actually refers to the ...

Given that vintage glass is not only holding its value but getting more expensive, digitally recreating some of that classic look digitally is a sound option. It also comes with an undo button. When ...

Chromatic aberration is the unwanted distortion of colors that you sometimes notice on the edges of your photos. It happens because colors of light have different wavelengths, which means your camera ...

Structured light passing through a noisy environment gets distorted (a), but if another unstructured beam also gains the same distortion, the effect can be undone by mixing them in a nonlinear crystal ...