P3D Re: "Bowl" distortion in viewers

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 
>From: erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker) writes:
>....................
>  I didn't see ANY bowl effect. There was a very slight
>tilt of the image away from me at the top which appeared
>to be due to a bit of rotation in one image thanks to
>my quicky mounting job.
>
>  I should mention that my glasses (which I wear all the
>time, including looking thru the viewer) have a lot of
>distortion when I look through the lenses off center.
>(So much that I usually don't trust my eyes to judge
>if a picture is level). They have barrel distortion.
>So perhaps my brain just filters out the bowl effect
>because my glasses cause it every day.
>

*****  If you were aware of the tilt caused by rotation, I suspect you would
have been able to discern any significant curvature of the field. Thanks for
the report on the MF viewer.

Larry Berlin

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