Q2 distortion in portrait

[Lawly]

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Took my recently acquired Q2 for a walk around Dublin Ireland yesterday and was surprised at the degree of distortion when I captured images holding the camera portrait hold and pointing the lens up. 

See the attached image with buildings on the right leaning to the left.

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[jaapv]

And on the left leaning to the right. With a wideangle lens hold your camera straight and parallel to the verticals. Otherwise you will always see this effect - with any camera and any wideangle.

 

Easy to correct in post (Cleaned exposure and colour up a bit as well  )

 

 

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[jankap]

In Photoshop take "Filter" and then "Adaptive Wide Angle" as the first step.

To avoid the effect, you should keep the camera vertical. And loose a lot of room at the bottom.😒

[jaapv]

I normally use "Lens Correction" and "Custom" in Photoshop, it gives more options. The image was 0.6º tilted to the left too  

In the past we would tilt the enlarger head and paper holder to get these effects . 

[HowardMCheng]

I see @jaapv has already identified the issue for you, but will also just add that the artificial horizon is pretty handy if you want to make sure your camera is level, as it has pitch sensor too as well as roll sensor. Although that is all well and good only if the buildings are perfectly straight. If you're shooting in an area with older architecture where subsidence has already caused some of the buildings to lean, it will be pointless, and you might as well just roll with it (see what I did there LOL).

Hope that gives you some additional food for thought, @Lawly.

H