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Some panorama tips and a correction

Some panorama tips and a correction

Posted Sep 10, 2009 4:24 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Some panorama tips and a correction by anton
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's hugin experience

Nitpick: The ideal lens projects a rectangle onto a rectangle (rectilinear projection), and then one usually does not say that it distorts.

But isn't it so that the lenses in real-life cameras are never quite ideal? I believe the only realizable camera that does not have any geometric distortion is the pinhole camera.


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Some panorama tips and a correction

Posted Sep 10, 2009 9:27 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link]

But isn't it so that the lenses in real-life cameras are never quite ideal?
That may be true, but misses my point, which was that a panorama program has to transform the component images even if the component images are not distorted.

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