MDDESKEY wrote in message <19980121220000.RAA07761@ladder02.news.aol.com>...

> I am well aware of the Nikon PC [perspective correction] lenses, which are
>very expensive. For rendering vertical lines parallel with the frame sides
>when the camera back is not vertical, this is one answer. For THIS problem, I
>often shoot with a non-fisheye 14mm, camera back vertical and crop the
>resulting slide. What I was ASKING was how the Nikon 24-120 rendered straight
>lins on buildings, parallel or not...that is if it CURVED these straight lines,
>especially at the zoom extremes.

All zooms have linear distortion (as do most SLR wideangles...), and with the
24-120mm Nikkor distortion is present throughout its zoom range, but it is very
moderate (maybe too much for architecture though...). It is pincushion above
about 35mm, and wavy-line type below - and it increases only slightly at the
FL extremes. There is no FL at which distortion is "0". BTW, there is a review
of this lens on my web page under "I babble". The 100-300mm f5.6, the MF
35-70mm f3.5 (62mm filter version), and the 70-180mm f4-5.6 are the lowest
distortion Nikkor zooms that I have seen.
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David Ruether
http://www.fcinet.com/ruether
ruether@fcinet.com