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Old 6th May 2013, 15:59
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mickjoebill
 
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I raised the question of a starboard wing drop and have studied the video a few more times .
These cameras have a wide field of view and there is tremendous curvilinear distortion, particularly in the corners and edges. Of course it can be analyzed with knowledge of the camera's focal length, plate scale etc. But it is not simple.
The lamp post at 2.43 gives a clue to the lens distortion.

These days it is very simple to create a lens map by shooting a chart and applying the corrections with software. In this case a map of this camera could be made if the vehicle was parked square on to a brick wall.

If the original was recorded in HD there is far more detail available than what we are looking at.
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