I seem to have a problem with distorted verticals, particular at the edges. Has anyone else noticed this issue? The picture below illustrates what I mean. Look at the tower and also clock tower in park. Also visible in video footage. Can’t find any lens corrections for it in Lightroom.
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The leaning tower of Blackpool is new since we left in January 
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Try this fellas method it’s for PS & Lightroom 
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This was just a quick bash in PS, horizon could do with a little straighten but just showing for reference hence also why I cropped in, also statue to the left is on the wonk.
Cheers @kirky. I’ll have a play, though it’s a bit of a pain that I have to. The images from my mini 2se & m2 pro don’t exhibit this problem. A bit disappointed with the mini 4 pro in this respect, considering it’s in the region of 4 times the price of my 2 se.
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Yes understood - been wondering what may cause it 
But regarding the straightening of things, it can be a bit of a faff as you get one thing right then it throws summit else skewed - just needs a bit of playing with, I find it a nightmare myself tbh & is probably one of my most hated things trying to correct,
You haven’t got a wide angle lens on the drone have you ?
Edit : maybe worth raising it with DJI if it’s always a problem ( isolated case ) with your drone, not sure if I’ve seen anyone else mention it.
No, it’s just as it came from dji. Has any other mini 4 pro owners noticed this problem? Or is it a fault with mine?
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Contact DJI
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The lens on a Mini4 Prohas the same field of view as a 24mm lens on a 35mm DSLR or film camera.
It is considered a wide angle lens - the “standard” lens for a 35mm camera is 45 to 55 mm focal length.
Any lens, even the wide angle on a DJI or 35mm camera will render verticals vertical if the lens is perfectly level, if tilted up or down the verticals will be angled. The wider the field of view, the more pronounced the effect.
There is nothing wrong with your lens.
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Ah! Thanks, I’d not thought of that that makes sense for some of my closer shots of the tower. May be the next upgrade should be to include perspective control. 
. Though still not as noticeable on the mini 2 se or M2Pro which are similarly wide angle lenses.
Misread that in a quick scan…
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This distortion is actually how your eye sees vistas, but your brain ‘autocorrects’. If, for example, you are looking side-on from across the street at a row of terraced houses, we’ll assume that the street and houses are dead straight and parallel, then the one directly opposite is at a right angle to your viewpoint, but those on each side are viewed at angles that become shallower the further away. A photograph taken with a normal lens will show this as if the street and the houses were curving away from tho one dead opposite, on both sides of it; when you are looking at it with your eyes, your brain corrects and you perceive them as a straight line but the camara lens can’t do this. Thia curving away affect is increased with wide-angle and fish-eye lenses and decreased with telephoto/zoom lenees. It applies to all directions, not just horizontally level as in the above example.
I have always found that the ‘normal’ camera lens seems to work as a wide-angle type compared to my natural vision; photos, unless taken with tele lenses, do not look like what I see. I draw several conclusions from this, firstly, that my eyes are slightly telephoto. that my vision is maginfied slightly, secondly, that all cameras are wrong and I am right, and that I’m the only person on the planet who has ever noticed (unlikely), and thirdly, that I’m fucking wierd (there is enough evidence for a prosecution in this matter). Drone photography with my mini 4K at 2x zoom looks about right to my perception, but of course the field of view is restricted (I am aware that the 4K’s zoom is electronic cropping and that the lens is not actually zoomed at all, but this is what my percepection of it is; it looks right at 2x ‘zoom’…).
Objects higher or lower than your veiwpoint are affected by this as well.
This! Easily fixed in PS & LR though.
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