Hello everyone. I need some help. I just bought a Tamron 14mm 2.8 SP. I have taken some pictures of inside my house to try out the lens. I am needing a wide lens to try getting into real estate photography. So everything I read before I bought this lens says it is not a fisheye and does not distort images. I have taken the pictures and see a lot of distortion. Is there something I am doing wrong or is this lens not compatible with the D750. Well the pictures I saved are too big to use. So the edges are pulled out. Like things that are supposed to be square are not like floor tile and a square picture on the wall.
older Tamron 14mm 2.8 on my D750
- Thread starter brent1972
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All wide angle lenses espcially ultra wide will distort to some degree. Some more then othets.
The main thing is to keep the camera level when taking a shot. Dont point up down or sideways too much.
Also you need to use some sort of program to correct for distortion. Whether be LR or DXO or whichever you like after looking into it.
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BackdoorArts
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With rectilinear ultra-wides what you get depends a lot on how you use it. I have no experience with the Tamron, but I have the Sigma 8-16mm (which would be a 12-24mm in FX equivalency) and while you do not get true distortion, you do get views that are a distortion of reality. There's little that can be done to normalize the look of something that wide, the rectilinear design simply keeps your lines from bending which is what you'd want for real estate photography. How you position the lens in the room will play a huge role in how much you can remove the warped perception recorded in the camera. It takes some getting used to, but it should work for real estate purposes.
That said, if you were to share an example of the "distortion" you're seeing it would help me understand whether you're seeing something in the lens or in the use of the lens.
That said, if you were to share an example of the "distortion" you're seeing it would help me understand whether you're seeing something in the lens or in the use of the lens.