The age of lugging around a pricey DSLR kit just to capture casual fisheye, wide-angle and macro photos may be nearing its end -- for some of us, at least. Designed by a startup duo in California, the ...

Portrait photographers tend to avoid barrel distortion by using standard or telephoto lenses. But when used intentionally, extreme barrel distortion can be a great way to capture creative portraits.

Hello,<BR><BR>Prior to buying the Canon A750 IS, I saw in a review that it had mild barrel distortion (and, AFAIK, this can't be eliminated completely, can it?). From some sample photos, it didn't ...

Fisheye (or Barrel) Distortion is an optical aberration at the edges of an image or a shot that is produced by the use of ultra-wide-angle lenses. The edges of a shot with this type of distortion ...

Theimagingfactory has released Debarrelizer 1.0 for iMovie. It’s a free iMovie plug-in for correcting “barrel distortion” in digital video shoots and can also be used for adding wide-angle effects.

One of the lesser-known ways that camera manufacturers have been able to make digital cameras ever smaller and less expensive is by using in-camera software to correct for lens distortion on the fly.

We look at the wonderful world of wide-angle lenses; how they’re used and pitfalls to avoid. These two images show the differences between an ultra-wide (14mm equivalent) and a normal wide-angle (28mm ...

(a) A singlet metalens suffers from large barrel distortion. (b) A compound metalens effectively eliminates the barrel distortion. (c, d) Ray-tracing modeling of the (c) singlet and (d) compound ...