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• Lens Distortion Grids (pdf) for download. Updated with Camera department documentation. #vfx #cinematography

  48 inches by 96 inches PDF files. You can print these at Fedex/Kinko’s, laminate them etc. You can scale these if you want a bit of a margin for rigging/mounting.

  base lens distortion grid

  base lens disortion grid with nested smaller grid

  base grid, nested smaller grid and xo

  A closer look, each grid has a friendly note to your crew.

  Documentation: I like to send a pdf of how to shoot the grid(s) to the camera department in pre-production. If you get lucky, you can have them shoot the grid(s) during camera checkout. I’ve included an example of the memo you can download here see note below.

  Example Mapping Lenses for Lens Distortion memo

  Everyone’s workflow is different. Before sending the document, I would have your CGI/Matchmover team read the example document and make changes that would help their specific workflow.

  Note: The linked example document was taken from a wonderful page written by Niles Heckman on his web site (http://www.nilesheckman.com/work_experience/Heckman_Set_Documentation_Dec_2006.html) which is now gone. However, I found a cached copy here at www.leova.com.

  Good Luck!

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  12 years ago / 17 notes