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Shipwack

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4. Wide-angle lens?

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2025, 03:18 PM

Apr 19

No wide-angle lens?

There are a few possible answers to this question.

1) A wide-angle lens wasn’t used because this type of lens usually has distortion along the edges of the photo, especially for more distant objects.

2) One was used, and during post processing the distortion was removed by the software. (My personal guess).

3) One was used, but the distorted areas were cropped out.

I’m not sure of the answer because the photographer didn’t include camera data on his post on Instagram, not even in the comment section. By the way, this shot was chosen as a NASA image of the day.

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