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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith)
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Subject: Re: wide-angle lens distortion - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 21:04:54 EST
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umn-cs!smith    Mar 22 17:23:00 1984

  I have a 24mm Nikkor and had a very hard time convincing a friend looking
through it that he was indeed seeing straight lines.  The wide angle effect
is very pronounced --- right angles don't look right at all --- so it's
easy to see lines as curved even when they aren't.

Rick.