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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 107341" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>There's "good" distortion and "bad" distortion, and each possible use of a wide angle will dictate into which category some of those distortion types fit.  For instance, curved lines on the edges may be acceptable, but "really curved" may not.  How much barrel distortion you get may impact your ability to use the lens for certain things.  The wider you get the more variety you can find within the same focal length.  That's why renting/borrowing can be so important because you have no way of knowing whether specific distortion types have been adjusted in post-processing (i.e. Lightroom provides lens profiling for each of these that will allow you to correct each of these aspects).</p></blockquote><p></p>