Image Distortions

These are examples of distorted images.
They are produced from badly engraved plates or poor photography.

It is difficult to imagine the copper engraved plates distorting in such a parallelagram fashion.
It is also difficult understanding how skilled engravers could make such bad judgements of right-angles.

The first few are not photographic distortions.
The originals were held to the monitor screen. They really are that bad.

Fig 1

An example of
engraving distortion.
 print
Fig 2

An example of
engraving distortion. 		            Print
An example of
engraving distortion.		 print
An example of
photographic distortion.
The bowing of the top
and left borders is
the result of having the
camera a bit too close
and having the lens set 
at too wide an angle.
This is not obvious
during the photography
session - it is only
apparent when editing.

The frame of this item
was perfectly square.
This is an example of
sloppy photography!
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