The image with the widest field of view appears warped. I was wondering, is this a desired characteristic or are there techniques used to remove this distortion?
FLinesse
@clarkd2017 It's a fisheye lens. Quote from Wikipedia: "A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view. Instead of producing images with straight lines of perspective (rectilinear images), fisheye lenses use a special mapping (for example: equisolid angle), which gives images a characteristic convex non-rectilinear appearance.
AlexTLuo
What advantages are there to using a fisheye lens to get a wide angle picture compared to how phones take panoramic pictures? I was under the impression that phones stitch together normal images in order to create the wide angle effect.
The image with the widest field of view appears warped. I was wondering, is this a desired characteristic or are there techniques used to remove this distortion?
@clarkd2017 It's a fisheye lens. Quote from Wikipedia: "A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view. Instead of producing images with straight lines of perspective (rectilinear images), fisheye lenses use a special mapping (for example: equisolid angle), which gives images a characteristic convex non-rectilinear appearance.
What advantages are there to using a fisheye lens to get a wide angle picture compared to how phones take panoramic pictures? I was under the impression that phones stitch together normal images in order to create the wide angle effect.