Schneider Optics PC-SUPER-ANGULON 28 mm f/2.8 User Manual

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Perspective Correction for Analog and Digital Photography

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Too much
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Optical axis

Building is true to scale
but cropped on top

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Building not true to scale,
vertically compressed

Converging lines

≈ ¡3°

The equalizing of converging lines or of unfavorable perspective due to a
camera location made necessary by obstacles, reflections or danger, e .g .
traffic, is not only interesting for conventional analog photography, but also
for digital photography when higher quality demands are made . While digi-
tal images or digitized (scanned) analog images can be equalized on the
computer using image editing software such as Photoshop, this is, however,
associated with substantial degrading: If the rectangular image is distorted
in the manner of a trapezoid for the parallel alignment of the converging
lines, the interpolation (recalculation of the pixels) required for this reduc-

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