Is there any software to normalize fish-eye photos?

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I plan to photograph city buildings as a
project using a fish-eye lens on my camera.

Can the curved edges on these photos be
straightened out by specialist software?

Please help, Frank
 
Frank said:
I plan to photograph city buildings as a
project using a fish-eye lens on my camera.

Can the curved edges on these photos be
straightened out by specialist software?

Please help, Frank
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I suspect there are many programs and
plug-ins that can correct for lens distortion.

Here's a trial that may be worth a look:

PTLens
http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/index.html

If you search on Google and / or Google
Groups...for the following subjects...

lens distortion
fisheye distortion
barrell distortion
pincushion distortion

You'll find lots of discussion about it.

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Frank Martin said:
I plan to photograph city buildings as a project using a fish-eye lens on
my camera.

Can the curved edges on these photos be straightened out by specialist
software?

Please help, Frank
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There are quite a few such programs around. What you are looking for is
called deconvolution. DxO is one.
Jim
 
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There are quite a few such programs around.
What you are looking for is called
deconvolution. DxO is one.
Jim
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Actually I have been doing some photos with
the new fisheye lens and there are very few
curves at all. However in some tight city
laneways the fisheye photographs everything,
but the high walls sort of "lean" at various
angles without showing any curvature. I
suppose the software will fix this up too?
My lens is an "Olympus ZUIKO DIGITAL ED
7-14mm 1:4.0" and I guess my question is,
does the software have to be suitable for
specific lenses?

Regards Frank
 
Frank said:
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Actually I have been doing some photos with
the new fisheye lens and there are very few
curves at all. However in some tight city
laneways the fisheye photographs everything,
but the high walls sort of "lean" at various
angles without showing any curvature. I
suppose the software will fix this up too?
My lens is an "Olympus ZUIKO DIGITAL ED
7-14mm 1:4.0" and I guess my question is,
does the software have to be suitable for
specific lenses?
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Most barrel/pincushion distortion programs accept parameters
for the lens you are using and compensate for it accordingly.

The relevant information is usually in the EXIF data, so this
can be done quite automatically if your lens is in the database.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."
 
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Most barrel/pincushion distortion programs
accept parameters
for the lens you are using and compensate
for it accordingly.

The relevant information is usually in the
EXIF data, so this
can be done quite automatically if your
lens is in the database.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important
design
tool--and it's seriously underused."
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Thank you.
 
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