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barrel distortion

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barrel distortion,
outward bowing of gridded straight lines in an image, resulting from lens distortion such that the lateral magnification at the center of the image is greater than that at the edges.


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It eliminates barrel distortion, a common phenomenon which plagues other digital cameras, causing the center of an image to appear wider in the middle.
 
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