Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
The obvious solution is to simply buy more gear and not learn the 101 basics.
Phil Forrest
Phil Forrest
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
The X100 will give you exactly the same perspective distortion if you point it at the same subject from the same spot. As will any camera/lens with the same field of view.
This is one of the most baffling threads I've read on RFF...
michaelwj
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This thread is funny.
Maybe you can help me? I took a head shot portrait of my wife with a 15mm lens. To fill the frame I had to get really close, but now their nose looks really big? I'm going to return the lens, it's obviously faulty. I'm also going to sue for compensation because my wife was upset with the photo.
Maybe you can help me? I took a head shot portrait of my wife with a 15mm lens. To fill the frame I had to get really close, but now their nose looks really big? I'm going to return the lens, it's obviously faulty. I'm also going to sue for compensation because my wife was upset with the photo.
michaelwj
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Am not closed to opinions. And I am not saying Fuji is bad. After I tossed my X-T1 along with the 23mm f/2 I purchased again the X100, but this time the faster focusing X100F, which is not giving me the "perspective" concern you mention.
And after researching a bit I found out that the 23mm f/2 has indeed a tendency to distortion (trying to avoid the term flaw and issue). I should have done the research before I bought the camera-lens combo.
I think the 100F doesn't have the distortion because it focuses faster. The photo can be taken before the distortion appears.
KenR
Well-known
B&h
B&h
Nobody is mentioning the fact that B&H took back the lens and camera after an unknown period of time (months?). That is great customer service which should be acknowledged as such.
B&h
Nobody is mentioning the fact that B&H took back the lens and camera after an unknown period of time (months?). That is great customer service which should be acknowledged as such.
michaelwj
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Assuming that any it is actually the truth. Just like the lens distortion, we have no evidence of it occurring.
Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
charjohncarter
Veteran
In Mexico they say, no esta 'RAS.'
BernardL
Well-known
Great customer service, fine. But B&H are not philantropists. So, other customers, somehow, are paying for such capricious behavior.
Brian Atherton
Well-known
This made my day. One of the funniest comments I've read on the RFF in a long, long while.
Tim Murphy
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bushwick1234
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bushwick1234
Well-known
Thanks. Will try FF.
There are several lens reviews about this specific Fujifilm XF 23mm lens that point in the same direction and they mention the "higher order" distortion issue that can be only partially corrected with PS or other external software.
bushwick1234
Well-known
That is what it seems to me LCSmith.
bushwick1234
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bushwick1234
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Not all 23mm are built equally. Not all lenses in the same focal length are built equally. I thought you guys knew that.
retinax
Well-known
You get tons of good advice (and some ridicule..) and choose to listen only to the one person who says buying more gear is the solution? Suit yourself. This is an expensive and slow way to learn, but I suppose it will work. Or you could learn about perspective. Pay some attention to what your own eyes see. If that's not enough, there are lots of resources on the internet and in libraries, some for photographers, probably more for drawing.
Do you know what theses higher order distortions are? If there are any, they wouldn't be visible in the examples you posted. But in any case they are automatically corrected in camera for JPEGs and in LR for lenses that LR has profiles for (like this one, I'm sure). These reviews were likely written when the lens first came out and there were no LR profiles yet.
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
We do know that, no one in the thread has said otherwise.
But perspective distortion will be the same for both...
ptpdprinter
Veteran
Some people just need to learn the hard way.
michaelwj
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The curvature that isn’t in your images is the most basic distortion (actually the only true lens distortion). So called “higher order” distortions aren’t actually distortions, but aberrations and include coma, astigmatism, spherical and chromatic aberration.
The distortion that is visible in your image is called perspective distortion and has nothing to to with the lens and everything to do with the angle the picture was taken at (as in not at normal incidence to the object).
You definitely should try full frame. I hear it is excellent, and you know what they say about a fool and their money...