1. An electronic imaging system for capturing a wide-angle image, the system comprising; a wide-angle lens for producing a wide-angle optical image, the wide-angle lens producing a distortion in the wide-angle image; and an imaging sensor, having a surface in optical communication with the wide-angle lens, for converting the wide-angle optical image into a corresponding output signal, the imaging sensor comprising a plurality of imaging elements, the plurality of imaging elements having a distribution on the surface representable by a nonlinear function; wherein the distribution of the imaging elements corrects the distortion in the wide-angle image.