Does anyone else hate those wide angle lens photos?

gingercordial

Our current (and very soon to be ex) landlord is marketing our flat with a set of photos that make me laugh at how big it looks. They are so distorted that one of those square Ikea Expedit shelving units looks like "regular" rectangular bookshelves.

They've also used two photos to display both halves of the open plan kitchen/lounge, which is fair enough except they are from different tenancies with different furniture which means you can't see the same pieces in each to judge the "overlap". We know (because we're there and we know how many spotlights there are in the ceiling) that the overlap is significant and you'd never get all that furniture in there at the same time, but a prospective tenant would think it's a good half as big again as it really is.

Obviously they'd figure it out in a viewing and I assume that each photo used is the best they have of that angle (they are admittedly nice photos) but it resulted in an eyeroll from us anyway.

Not that there have been any viewings during the fortnight it's been up because they're massively overpricing it...

vic_sf49

I would rather 8-10 wide-angled shots than 45...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51051451.html

The photos are to entice you, or show you the horrors, so I always take them with a pinch of salt, and laugh at some of the awful photography attempts.

If I like somewhere, I skip straight to the details and/or the floorplan for the measurements.

mrginge

Its the equivalent of picking up Brad Pitt on grinder and finding out that he's a 24 stone sewage tester from mablethorpe.

Not that I would know of course.

teddysmum

The wrongly used lenses, which cause large distortions don't do anyone any favours. In fact they would put some buyers off, because the rooms look ill proportioned or badly constructed (like historic houses with no right angles or level floors).

CathA

One of our local EA's takes photos from above!! I often imagine him standing on kitchen work surfaces and dangling from the light fittings.