Why does my basic camera have a wide angle lens I bought a canon 8mp camera and the lens is wide angle leaving shots of boxed shaped items to be curved.?

Answer 1

Two possible answers: 1. If the curve is really exaggerated and really rounds boxes so they tend to look like a ball that "kind of" have four corners, then you may have a "fisheye" lens. 2. Some less-expensive non-fisheye lenses have what is called "barrel" distortion or "pincushion" distortion. Barrel distortion slightly curves box edges out until they look a little over-inflated. Pincussion distortion slightly curves box edges in until they look like someone is sucking the contents out of the box. Many of the less expensive zoom lenses have barrel distortion at one end of their zoom range and pincushion distortion at the other end of their zoom range.