There is distortion in every image, even (esepcially) the ones our eyes impress on our brains. Imagaes can be misleading even when they have very little distortion.
And even if there is effectively no distortion ... https://www.learnphotographyskills.com/what-is-telephoto-compression/
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Thank you!