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Katrina is noticing some distortion in her images and suspects that it might be due to her use of a wide-angle lens which makes the field of view wider than the image sensor in her camera. If she is correct, what kind of specific optical distortion is she experiencing?

molecular distortion

mustache distortion

barrel distortion

pincushion distortion

1 answer

Katrina is likely experiencing barrel distortion. This type of distortion is common with wide-angle lenses, where straight lines appear to curve outwards from the center of the image, resembling a barrel shape.