Adobe includes numerous third-party plug-ins with its After Effects graphics software package that provide you with additional image-manipulation options without the need to spend your time and money ...

Mocha Pro 3.1 is a free update of this planar tracking and rotoscoping software. (What "planar" means is that it can track whole surfaces and not just points - so if a "surface" moves partly out of ...

One of the lesser-known ways that camera manufacturers have been able to make digital cameras ever smaller and less expensive is by using in-camera software to correct for lens distortion on the fly.

A Princeton-led research team develops three-dimensional "metamaterials," which they hope will someday produce lenses that eliminate image distortion For years, researchers have struggled to find an ...

With most wide-angle lenses, distortion is a way of life. Warped edges and a bulging center are often byproducts of a wide field of view, but Venus Optics created its new Laowa 12mm f/2.8 lens with a ...

For those who are after the ultimate in stills optics, Sigma has just announced a new 14-24mm addition to the Art lens lineup that makes claim to have almost zero distortion. Making claim to have made ...

The miniaturization of electronics, in particular the electronic sensors on which digital images are captured, has seen digital cameras shrink to such a degree that they are now standard equipment on ...