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Lens correction

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Lens correction

These days, I find I get a lot of shots from action cameras like goPro's, or even cameras like DSLRs, that might be using sort of cheap consumer lenses. And there are times where those lenses actually affect the look of the shot. Now, I want to point out that the shot that we're looking at here is obviously not part of the promo, that we'll be using for the vast majority of this title. As I mentioned when we started off, not every project can show you every real world problem. So, in this case what I had to do was borrow some footage from fellow author Rich Herrington, of a shot that he took while on vacation in Hawaii. And this shot was recorded on a goPro as Rich was wading out into the wilds of the Pacific Ocean. Let's go ahead and take a look at this. Now, if you look at the shot, especially right here around the horizon, you'll notice some kind of curvatures, some barrel distortion. And this of course is because Rich was shooting with a GoPro camera that's extremely wide angle…

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