shawn
Veteran
If you aren't getting it with the x100 it is because you are now holding it level. The X100 will absolutely give the same perspective distortion if it is tilted.
Shawn
Shawn
Another photograph shot with X-T1 and 23mm f/2 with heavy distortion. When I try to correct the image using LR I have to crop and the head gets trimmed off.![]()
I think from a practical perspective, you might be better off using a full frame camera which will allow you to use a less wide angle lens to get the same angle of view with less of what you are perceiving (and I agree) as distortion.
I understand the technical arguments here and they are probably technically correct.
However I also get that to you the images don't look right. Because a 23mm lenses feels distorted where a 35mm lens would feel more "normal" and less distorted.
This bugs me about APS-C and smaller also.
I know this is pointless but....
Try something. Take a picture of a building straight on with the camera held perfectly level and not tilted either forward or backward. Then take a picture of the same building with the same camera/lens combination with the camera tilted upwards. I betcha a nickel you can see this same "distortion" in the second picture no matter what lens you use.
The only way you can avoid this is to always shoot pictures level and dead straight without any tilt. Or you can invest in a large format camera with full swings, tilts, rises and falls that allows for perspective control. (Thus my post about Sinar, Linhof, Deardorff, etc.)
I see the distortion. My understanding, which may be flawed, is that makers of these kinds of lenses do not worry much about distortion since it is usually corrected by the camera software or in post. At least, that was the logic behind the faulty design of one lens I used to have, a Sony FE 28 f/2, whose inherent distortion was widely known and accepted.
EDIT: The distortion I see has nothing to do with perspective. It is in the curved lines.
The 23mm f/2 Fuji WR lens is fully corrected optically, not by the software. At least according to both LensTip.com and Opticallimits.com in their measurements of the lens. The distortion in the two photos posted here is totally due to the tilting of the camera, not any distortion in the lens used.
I just imported the picture into lightroom and put a grid up over it after rotating the picture so the slats are vertical. Only one slat is fully visible, it is straight. The attached is at 300% view.
Shawn