Am 08.04.2014 08:36, schrieb Torsten Bronger:
> But as I said, Hugin additionally has this "-a-b-c" term, which
> changes things.  It mathematically transfers part of the paraxial
> focal length into the distortion parameters, thus resulting in a
> different focal length.

hugin inherited the lens model from panotools. There the -a-b-c term was
introduced to keep approximately the same image dimensions when
correcting distortions (an I assume Mr. Dersch did the right thing then,
he'S a professor for mathematics after all. However, the focal length is
for user convenience only since internally panotools works with the
field of view solely.

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