A vision system of a vehicle, said vision system comprising: a camera disposed at a side of a body of a vehicle equipped with said vision system and having a field of view exterior of the equipped vehicle and wherein the field of view is at least rearward of the equipped vehicle; wherein said camera captures image data; wherein said camera comprises a lens and a two dimensional imaging array sensor having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in an array of rows and columns; wherein said array of said imaging array sensor has a center region; wherein said lens is configured to focus light at said imaging array sensor, and wherein said lens has a center axis; a video display (5,6) disposed in the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle when the driver is normally operating the equipped vehicle, wherein said video display (5,6) is operable to video images derived from image data captured by said camera; characterized by: wherein said lens comprises a wide angle lens that is disposed at said imaging array sensor with said center axis of said lens laterally offset from said center region of said array of said imaging array sensor; wherein, with said camera disposed at the side of the equipped vehicle, said center axis of said lens is offset laterally towards an inboard side of said array of said imaging array sensor that is laterally closer than said center region to the side of the body of the equipped vehicle, so as to provide less distortion of the displayed images at the regions of the displayed images sideward from the vehicle and along the side of the vehicle so as to provide enhanced of video images of the blind spot region at the side of the vehicle. a camera disposed at a side of a body of a vehicle equipped with said vision system and having a field of view exterior of the equipped vehicle and wherein the field of view is at least rearward of the equipped vehicle; wherein said camera captures image data; wherein said camera comprises a lens and a two dimensional imaging array sensor having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in an array of rows and columns; wherein said array of said imaging array sensor has a center region; wherein said lens is configured to focus light at said imaging array sensor, and wherein said lens has a center axis; a video display (5,6) disposed in the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle when the driver is normally operating the equipped vehicle, wherein said video display (5,6) is operable to video images derived from image data captured by said camera; characterized by: wherein said lens comprises a wide angle lens that is disposed at said imaging array sensor with said center axis of said lens laterally offset from said center region of said array of said imaging array sensor; wherein, with said camera disposed at the side of the equipped vehicle, said center axis of said lens is offset laterally towards an inboard side of said array of said imaging array sensor that is laterally closer than said center region to the side of the body of the equipped vehicle, so as to provide less distortion of the displayed images at the regions of the displayed images sideward from the vehicle and along the side of the vehicle so as to provide enhanced of video images of the blind spot region at the side of the vehicle. wherein said lens comprises a wide angle lens that is disposed at said imaging array sensor with said center axis of said lens laterally offset from said center region of said array of said imaging array sensor; wherein, with said camera disposed at the side of the equipped vehicle, said center axis of said lens is offset laterally towards an inboard side of said array of said imaging array sensor that is laterally closer than said center region to the side of the body of the equipped vehicle, so as to provide less distortion of the displayed images at the regions of the displayed images sideward from the vehicle and along the side of the vehicle so as to provide enhanced of video images of the blind spot region at the side of the vehicle.