Get too close to an object, person or building with any lens and it will distort. Perspective distortion is all about the subject you are photographing and the distance and angle you are photographing it from. Unlike optical distortion, it’s not related to the lens you are using. Perspective distortion is different to optical distortion. Some older 18-35mm wide-angle zooms, for example, show mustache distortion at its worst. Mustache distortion is most apparent in older lenses. This is because straight lines close to the center curve towards the middle of the frame, while straight lines further out curve towards the edge of the frame. It is probably the hardest type of optical distortion to ‘deal’ with. Mustache – also called wavy or complex distortion – only occurs in some lenses and is a combination of the barrel and pincushion effects. It becomes more apparent the closer to the edge of the frame the straight lines are – these seem to be falling towards the center of the image. Just like barrel distortion, pincushion distortion is most obvious in images with clearly defined, straight lines. Pincushion distortion is most apparent at the telephoto end of the focal length (for example, 200mm). Pincushion distortion is quite common in zoom lenses, particularly telephotos such as a 70-200mm. Pincushion distortion is when vertical and horizontal lines appear to pinch into the center point of an image. When you photograph an image with a fisheye, you are looking for that distinctive distorted look – it’s not something to avoid or overcome.įisheyes capture extreme wide angles of view and barrel distortion is inevitable in these images – the distorted look of fisheye lenses is what gives them their charm and wow factor. Fisheye lenses actually make creative use of barrel distortion. Get too close to a person with a wide-angle lens like a 24mm and it can really warp their appearance – something to be very aware of when photographing people with wide-angle lenses.įisheye lenses are specialist, ultra-wide lenses – they vary in focal lengths and you can find 8mm fisheyes and 15mm fisheyes. However, it’s not just buildings that show barrel distortion. The center of the image may look optically correct, but the further you go to the edges of the image – and the subject – the more obvious the distortion becomes. In standard lenses, you will see barrel distortion most prominently when you photograph things with clearly defined lines, such as images of architecture. The amount of barrel distortion will always differ depending not only on the lens but also on the distance between the camera and the subject you are photographing.
Of course, it’s not just lines and edges, it’s every pixel, but it’s in straight lines and edges away from the center that you will notice it.īarrel distortion is present in most wide-angle prime lenses and zoom lenses, such as prime lenses with a focal length of 14mm, 20mm and 24mm through to zooms with a variable focal length of 14-24mm and 16-35mm. You can often see this in wide-angle images of cityscapes. Barrel Distortionīarrel Distortion is when vertical and horizontal lines appear to bulge out from the center of the image. This is not an optical distortion caused by the lens, so we will consider it later.įirst up though, there are three different types of optical distortion. There’s another type of distortion called perspective distortion which occurs as a result of the positioning of the camera relative to the subject.
To put it simply, optical distortion makes straight lines appear curved or warped in photographs. To understand why it happens, first think about what lenses actually are: they’re curved pieces of glass that have to transfer an image onto the flat surface of the camera’s sensor.
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Lens distortion, or optical distortion, occurs in many camera lenses of various focal length – even expensive, professional lenses.
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