I've been shooting with an R5 and a number of different RF lenses with no issues. Everything is great. I recently purchased the RF 15-35mm F2.8 IS USM for landscape shots. The pictures all show distortion where for example trees on the left are slanting to the left and trees on the right are slanting to the right. This is after lens correction in Lightroom. Is this normal for this lens? Seems very odd for a lens made for landscape photography. I'm thinking there might be an issue with this particular lens. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Examples... note that I manually corrected (in addition to applying the lens profile correction) the last image to straighten up the trees but was unable to do it and have it look decent in the other pictures
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Since I have the exact same camera and lens -- R5 and 15-35 f/2.8 -- I thought I'd give this a try. Results attached. These were shot with the lens at 15mm, in RAW, then scaled down and converted to JPEG for posting here; but no distortion correction has been applied, either in camera or in post. No Lightroom was used (I don't even have it).
The first is with the camera dead level, front-to-back, as indicated by the built-in level gauge. Trees look parallel to me. The second has the camera tilted up a little; the third, a lot. You can see that a bit of tilt has a lot of effect on the trees.
Your trees lean the other way, of course, but I do wonder if you weren't on higher ground -- just a little -- with the camera tilted down. The lakeside shot, in particular, has the horizon WAY up the picture.
So how can you shoot trees like this? 1 -- keep the camera dead horizontal, and then crop the ground out in post. 2 -- get a tilt lens. But those are expensive.
