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by d--b 3694 days ago
No it's a property of pinhole diffraction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
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The buildings at the edge of the photos look warped. Like an extreme fisheye lens would do.

Airy disk affects brightness and sharpness, not warping.

You could put a camera lens where the pin hole is to negate this warping, but that defeats the point of a pin hold camera.

Yes, it is proably more petzval field curvature than diffraction limiting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzval_field_curvature