Bend wide-angle pictures to Normal Perspective

Is there an iPhone app that will remove the distortion of the iPhone wide-angle lens. Something that will make the wide-angle picture look like it was taken with a "normal lens"?

I haven't found anything in App Store. Looking for something to run on a PC as an alternative.

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Using "One Step DVD from Movie" on my IMac 10.8.6 using Verbatim DVD-R ("Life Series") 4.7 GB 16X 120, I get a wide angle version of my two minute story rather than the 3X4 standard aspect ratio that I normally get and want. Help!

While using "One Step DVD from Movie" using DVD-R Verbatim ("Life Series" 4.7 16 X 120 min) on my IMac 10.6.8 I get a wide angle aspect ratio on the DVD not the standard 3X4 aspect ratio. The Quicktime Movie is is standard 3X4 aspect ratio and the video video footage is standard 3X4 aspect ratio? Advice will be greatly appreciated.

Try this basic troubleshooting fix :
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD folder.
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3 - reboot.
4 - launch IDVD and try again.
Personally I would not the the one step method but create the iDVD project from scratch so you can make sure the widescreen option is not selected in the preferences and you can follow this workflow:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

What's the best plugin for wide-angle / perspective correction

Hi guys,
I do a lot of location photography with a wide angle lens. When shooting upwards it sends the top of the building into the distance. My workflow has been to export to Photoshop for these and use the 'Transform' tools to add a little correction.
Do any of you use an aperture plugin for this and if so, would you recommend one to me?
Thanks for your help.
Richard

Well, unfortunately Flash was the universal format, and then Steve Jobs decided that he did not like Adobe. As most browsers on Earth were FLV playback enabled and if not, were only a quick, free download away. Now, it seems that Apple's devices will only work with flavors of MOV. One can still download and install Apple's QT Player (though several recent versions did not work well with Adobe programs - Steve Jobs sabotage?).
Instead of coming together on universal formats/CODEC's, it seems that many wish to fragment the market to support just their products. One is at the mercy of these hardware and software companies. Producers probably should now do several versions of everything, if they wish to cover all bases. Someone will have to download and install something.
Good luck,
Hunt

"Correcting" the bend at the edges of photos taken with a wide-angle lens.

I took a bunch of photos with a wide-angle lens. Naturally, this curves the image at the edges, so buildings at the edges appear to be leaning. I've been told that most photography software has a feature that can "correct" this. I'm wondering how to do this with Aperture. Please advise.

Hi Graham,
I see this statement a lot. That Aperture is a DAM and not an edit tool. This is not correct. Apple says that Aperture is "Powerful photo editing and management" and technically there is no reason why Aperture should not have a lens correction tool. It has dodge and burn now, why not more?
Also you could argue that Aperture is not a DAM system as it only handles images, and not all digital assets.
I far as I see Aperture its purpose is to manage and edit photos.
Best Regards,
Per Jessen Schmidt

Is this Sanyo wide angle lens worth buying?

I am going to buy a wide angle lens for my new Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2000A. This one is a Sanyo produced lens and I would like to know whether you think it is a wide enough lens. It normally costs $119.99 at Amazon but the price tonight is $99.95.
Those Amazon prices change fast.
Note: This refers to HD1000, but it will fit the HD2000 just as well because it is the same body. And when it refers to 10x optical zoom, that is for the HD 1000. My HD2000A has 16x optical zoom.
*Technical Details*
* 0.7x Wide Angle Lens Adapter
* Genuine SANYO Accessory
* Pressure-mount Design
*Product Details*
* Product Dimensions: 2.7 x 2.7 x 1.2 inches ; 6.4 ounces
*Product Description*
Sanyo VCP-L07WU 0.7x Wide Angle Adapter Lens for HD1000 Camcorder This Sanyo VCP-L07WU Wide Angle Adapter Lens (0.7x) is for use with the Xacti HD1000 Camcorder. _*Pressure mount design fits easily over lens to covert the HD1000's 10x lens to 26.6-266mm*_ Take great landscape and wide angle shots by using this adapter lens with your Sanyo high definition camcorder. This wide angle adapter lens works with the Xacti VPC-HD1000.
Lorna asks:
What do they mean by +“Pressure mount design fits easily over lens to covert the HD1000's 10x lens to 26.6-266mm”+ ? I don't understand what they are telling me and what they are assuming that I understand.
_If I have this wide angle lens on, do I still get the 16x optical zoom?_
~L

Ok, these are two videos I saw that show comparisons of the Sanyo wide angle lens.
To compare, I move the counter button back and forth so that I can see an immediate difference.
Sanyo Xacti HD2000 wide angle lens test #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3N3m_9lpqs&NR=1
Sanyo Xacti HD2000 wide angle lens test #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15X_e9Rg7XM&NR=1
Zyfert, I already know that I want the wide angle, and better more wide than less wide. From taking shots around the house and of the newly hatched sparrows, the ducks that go swimming in my pool, and my dog chasing them, I know that I need a wider lens to take in more of the picture. Actually the newly hatched sparrows do not need it, but for other needs, the wide angle serves a purpose for me.
~L

Wide angle lens for Built-In iSight? (MacBook Pro)

Hi,
I'm looking to use my MacBook Pro for a video conference, but the angle of the lens is so limited.
Are there any lenses you can put over the built-in camera that allow for a wider angle?
Right now, everyone has to sit one on top of another to be seen by the speaker. I would like to be able to create a little bit of a semi-circle so participants can see eachother while also seeing the speaker.
Any help? Anyone heard of anything?
I can imagine even a convex piece of plastic over the camera might do the trick. Don't know, but doesn't seem impossible. Even if there's mild distortion in the picture, the bigger view would be worth it.
Not really looking for a fish-eye, but more a wide angle or something that gives a bit more of a panorama effect.
Thanks.

Hello andintroducing
One disadvantage of the built-in iSight is its lack of any easy way to mount accessory lenses like those that can be used with an external iSight equipped with this Kaidan iSight Accessory Kit. This kit includes a threaded lens adapter ring that can be used to mount a 37-mm auxiliary wide-angle lens. The adapter ring can also be purchased separately.
On occasions when you need a wider field of view than your built-in iSight offers, other than rigging some wide-angle auxiliary lens to your MBP, the best I can suggest is to consider a second webcam that has a wide-angle lens. I have tested with a MacBook user who was comparing video from his built-in iSight with a QuickCam® Fusion™. The external camera offered a much wider field of view, and the video quality was fine. If you consider this alternative, I suggest you take your MBP with you when you shop. Doing so will let you "try-before-you-buy" so you can be certain whether the webcam is wide enough for your needs.
If you do not want to use a second camera, you can buy a wide-angle auxiliary lens for a camcorder and mount it in front of your built-in iSight.
Depending on your ingenuity and skills, you might want to mount the auxiliary lens with some kind of hanging mount like bent wire that would hold the lens in front of your iSight. Another simple method would be some kind of adhesive like double-sided tape or TAC Adhesive Putty.
Neither of these mounts would be very stable, esthetically pleasing, or permanent, but they could provide a quick, easy test to determine whether it would be worth the time and cost to develop a more elegant solution.
If you do try some of these suggestions, please post back your results. Whether you find what works or what does not, your information will be helpful to those who have the same need.
Cheers,
Jim
Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

PS CS6 Adaptive Wide Angle Filter - not working.

I am working on a panorama in PS CS6. I have merged all the images and am trying to correct the perspective using the adaptive wide angle filter. But when I open the filter and set correction mode to perspective - all I see is a background transparency. If I try to use one of the other modes the full image isn't visible, just seeming randomly cropped. I am using a macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.5.
Also, the lens information IS embedded in the image and is visible when I open the filter.
Any advice would be helpful!

Did you merge the layers before going into Adaptive Wide Angle?
Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E (windows)
Shift+Cmd+Option+E (mac)

Correcting stretched image by wide angle lens

When I shoot with a Canon EF-S 10mm-22mm, the edge of the images are often stretched - people's heads become oval, for example. I tried all kinds of lens correction Aperture plug-ins such as PTLens, only found out that they only correct barrel distortion and perspective distortion, not the "stretch" near the edge of the image. Anyone knows an Aperture plug-in that can correct "edge stretch"? Or is there a function within Aperture (or Photoshop) that does the job? Thanks much.

I know exactly what you are looking for. There was a Photoshop plug-in called "squeeze" by the well respected The Imaging Factory, which closed down in 2007. However you can still download it and get a free license key by the look of it.
It does exactly what you want, which is progressively squeezing the edges so that people at the edge of a group taken with a wide angle lens look natural. The centre is unaffected. The conventional lens correction programs do not do this.
There is no UB version, so it is necessary to re launch Photoshop in Rosetta.
I have been hunting high and low for a replacement, so if you find one for Aperture or Photoshop please post here. I have mainly been searching for a Photoshop plugin so maybe there is an Aperture plugin.
I think this is a real opportunity for a developer.
Sorry not to be more help.... I am posting in the hope that someone may come up with something.
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Wide angle lense problem...

Hi
I've just started shooting my film and have used a wide angle lense for some shots. Everything looked fine when I checked on the day of shooting. But when I just captured to FCE, there are small black areas on four corners, like a circle shape (as if the lense is covering) - is this because the lense wasn't put on properly? Is there a way of changing the format or cropping the video?
Thanks
Matt
iMac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.6) Final Cut Express HD

You can scale up the image a bit to hide it if you like.
The reason it's there in FCE is because you see all the picture. A TV or camera LCD was probably masking some of the image. That's why FCE has Overlays like Picture Safe and Title Safe, to judge what could be lost.
TVs will show less of the image than your computer screen. And not all TVs show the same amount of the image.
Try playing the Timeline to a TV/Monitor and see if the vignetting is hidden. Most likely it will.
Al

Would a Wide-Angle Lens work here?

Hi, everyone! This is my first post and excuse my ignorance but I need to see if you guys could help me with something. I just bought a T3i and I have no photography or video production experience but I'm really interested in getting my feet wet in both fields.
But anyway, I have a tripod and want to film my brother and I playing tennis. I always set the tripod up from a considerable distance but if we set it up in the middle we can only film one side of the court. Would a wide-angle lens be able to film both sides of the court at once?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Look online for sample photos illustrating angle of view.
You could get a 180 degree fisheye lens and sit it right at the net, but all objects other than those right by the lens will appear pretty small. Fisheye lenses also have fairly strong curvature effects. Also, there are two types of fisheye lenses... one type renders a full frame, rectilinear image, while the other type renders a round image.
While fisheye focal lengths appearsimilar to ultrawide lenses, at any given focal length actually a fisheye gives wider AOV than a non-fisheye lens. Canon now offers an 8-15mm fisheye zoom for example. But since it's designed for full frame cameras, it won't be as wide on your crop sensor camera (I don't have exact specs for it on a crop sensor camera, only full frame specs are listed). Tokina offers a 10-17mm fisheye zoom designed specifically for crop sensor cameras, and as such it can render 180 degree angle of view on your camera.
A non-fisheye ultrawide lens will have less curvature distortion, but will still have some at the extremes and also will have less wide angle of view. For example, the EF-S 10-22mm is the widest available Canon lens, giving 107 degree AOV at the 10mm setting. The widest non-fisheye lens made by anyone for use on your camera is the Sigma 8-16mm, which gives a 114 degree AOV at it's widest. With these ultrawide lenses, perspective distortion will still exaggerate perspective, making more distant objects look very small in comparison to closer ones... though it won't be as extreme as it is with a fisheye lens.
If this is a one-shot deal and the fisheye appeals to you, because a fisheye is a fairly specialized lens and you may want look into renting a lens for the purpose. An ultrawide non-fisheye such as the Canon 10-22mm is often more widely useful, so might be something you'd find a lot more use for in the long run, and want to purchase instead of renting.
Alan Myers
San Jose, Calif., USA
"Walk softly and carry a big lens."
GEAR: 5DII, 7D(x2), 50D(x3), some other cameras, various lenses & accessories
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Wide-Angle "Lens" for iMac?

We just purchased new iMacs for each of our three offices so we can use iChat for video conferencing. I'm finding that it's hard to get everyone into the picture when we have large meetings. Is there something I can stick onto the camera to make it "wide-angle" so it gets a wider shot?
Thanks!

You want each location to have a crowd of personnel in front of each
Macintosh? If this is the case, you may have to consider an external
digital camera; or look into third-party devices to accomplish this.
There is a way to do that on-screen multiple-party meeting/chat in
the OS X on one screen and the persons at each location will appear
but after a point, and on a small screen, that may be marginalized.
In that case, only the persons in front of the camera would be seen.
The older external iSight camera with 50mm lens was more available
to consider lens adapter ideas; since it was more like a real camera
and there are slide-on parts that could be adapted to that, for a wide
angle effect. (I have a little background in cameras, film, lenses.)
For the internal iSight camera, adding a lens over the little camera
port may be a hit and miss thing; & attaching it with velcro or some
other device seems like a frankenstein or rube goldberg moment!
The older external iSight cameras are harder to get; but they had
the advantage in being separate from the display. A few ideas on
that, and hints of adapting those, can be read about here:
http://homepage.mac.com/john_kenn/video-links.html
There may be a way to change how the internal lens "sees"
but from what I could find out (not having the iSight to try it)
the software suggested here may not be what you need:
http://www.stanford.edu/~mturk/gloyd/index.html (re: gloyd)
Another direction, perhaps unsupported officially, may
be in this utility? for iSight to see if it can perform;
maybe if the computer's camera were farther from those
needing to be seen by it, could help. Not sure of this:
Shareware, may have demo version.
"Total control of your mac's webcam"
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/
This can pan and zoom, but don't know if it would be practical!
Good luck & happy computing!

Wide angle correction plug-ins I'd like to see in FCP

It with some frustration I learn how Adobe Premiere's CS3 is beginning to overtake FCP in terms of useful plug-ins. One very useful plug-in in Premiere is "unpop" (not sure if that's it's actual name) that corrects the barrel distortion on wide angle adapters to give your footage a more Hollywood wide angel look, straightening out those curved verticals towards the edges of the frame. That's a plug-in I'd like to see FCP adopt in the next upgrade. Whilst they're at it, why not add PhotoShop's lens correction filter that can remove/lessen chromatic aberration? Anyone using wide angle lens would find these effects filters indispensable.
Unless of course anyone knows of a (cheap!) set of effects plug-ins that can already do these things?
Here's hoping.

It with some frustration I learn how Adobe Premiere's CS3 is beginning to overtake FCP
in terms of useful plug-ins.
Such stuff is all relative. Apple is not going to to provide a filter for everything and your need for barrel distortion correction is not anywhere on my list of things to add or to fix in FCP.
There are literally hundreds of plugs available for FCP. All you have to do is invest time to find them, time to test them, and money to buy them.
But there will always be interesting things available for After Effects that won't work in Motion; cool filters for FCP that aren't available for Premiere, stuff you can do in Photoshop that would be silly to have available inside Aperture.
bogiesan

Adaptive wide angle filter error for iPhone 4s in PS CC

Hello,
I have just watched a tutorial on Adobe TV regarding the new adaptive wide angle filter used on pre-stitched panoramas. I open an iPhone pano image. go to filter–>adaptive wide angle filter and in the lower left corner I find – as indicated as being requested to function properly the tut – the name of the camera, the lens and the f-stop with wich the image was taken. The filter does still not draw the automatic line on the corved part of the building I try to improve. Going to correction –> automatic in the upper right corner I get an error message that no matching profile for the iPhone's camera's lens could be found.
Why that when it is clerly indicated as being 4.28 mm etc already? The iPhone 4S has been here for quite a while and is widely used, so why the error?
Thanks for any hint!

Thanks, Trevor.Dennis,
it did seem to work out for a moment the wayyou suggested: the drag line appered allright this time, but after adjusting the curved line the filter made a fisheye image out of my panorama, cutting off about 20% on each side and leaving a ragged edge remining of a circle.
I'll keep trying!

It doesn't seem to be as sharp as it is in the "Develop" mode. This seems to occur more with wide angle than macro. Any suggestions would be extremely welcome...Norm

Here's my problem: (Lightroom 4) I will edit a photo in "Develop" to the point where it looks great and I'm satisfied with the results. Then I click back to "Library" and the photo seems to go a little out of focus. When I export the photo, it doesn't seem to be as sharp as it is in "Develop" mode. This seems to occur more with wide angle than macro. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Norm

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First of all, thanks again to Sean for his suggestion to look inside the transaction log!
Indeed that specific table that I noticed was filling the transaction log, is the largest table in my database. Its size stands at about ~65GB. Like I said earlier, it has no LOB or Overflow columns. But one interesting fact about it is - it had absolutely
no indexes! It was a heap, but it was also partitioned. I didn't know a case like this could cause such problems with shrink? It's weird but it also kinda makes sense in a way.
Anyways, I ran a script to create a partitioned clustered index on that table. That took pretty much all day long due to the table size (almost 7 hours). But once that was finished, shrinking the data file was a breeze!
At least... Until the shrink started "hanging" again because now it started dealing with my
second largest table (~55GB). Like the first one, this one is also a partitioned
heap without any indexes. So I expected this to happen. I guess the solution this time will be the same: Create a clustered index.
Does this make sense to you? A partitioned heap table causing such heavy workload to SHRINK, but when it's moved to a clustered index, suddenly it flies?
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Editin in cs6 from lightroom 5.5 does not allow adaptive wide angle filter

when opening a file for edit in cs6 from lightroom 5.5 the adaptive wide angle filter does not work. Opening the file directly into cs6 from bridge or from windows works normally

Did you merge the layers before going into Adaptive Wide Angle?
Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E (windows)
Shift+Cmd+Option+E (mac)

Bend wide-angle pictures to Normal Perspective

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