Portrait photographers tend to avoid barrel distortion by using standard or telephoto lenses. But when used intentionally, extreme barrel distortion can be a great way to capture creative portraits.

Hello,<BR><BR>Prior to buying the Canon A750 IS, I saw in a review that it had mild barrel distortion (and, AFAIK, this can't be eliminated completely, can it?). From some sample photos, it didn't ...

(a) A singlet metalens suffers from large barrel distortion. (b) A compound metalens effectively eliminates the barrel distortion. (c, d) Ray-tracing modeling of the (c) singlet and (d) compound ...

(a) A singlet metalens suffers from large barrel distortion. (b) A compound metalens effectively eliminates the barrel distortion. (c, d) Ray-tracing modeling of the (c) singlet and (d) compound ...