298Select On to reduce barrel distortion when shooting with wide-angle lenses and to reduce pin-cushion distortion whenshooting with long lenses (note that the edges of the area visiblein the viewfinder may be cropped out of the final photograph,and that the time needed to process photographs beforerecording begins may increase). This option does not apply tomovies and is available only with type G, E, and D lenses (PC,fisheye, and certain other lenses excluded); results are notguaranteed with other lenses. Before using auto distortioncontrol with DX lenses, select On for Auto DX crop or choose animage area of DX (24×16) as described on page 75; selectingother options may result in heavily cropped photographs or inphotographs with severe peripheral distortion.Auto Distortion ControlG button ➜ C shooting menuA Retouch: Distortion ControlFor information on creating copies of existing photographs withreduced barrel and pin-cushion distortion, see page 405.
