How often do you use lens correction?

[bratkinson]

Add my name to the 100% of the time I use the lens correction feature. As every lens has some level of distortion 'built in', I think it's a necessity. It also saves a lot of time trying to get vertical lines vertical, etc.

 

[weepete]

Most of mine have it on. But it's no effort to turn if off again if you don't like the results

 

[shefjr]

It's the first thing I do in my workflow. I don't typically adjust the sliders though, unless there is a lot of CA or distortion. It's a habit I picked up from online photo editing tutorial.
If it's on the interwebz it must be right...

 

[Paul Josaph]

I always doo it for buildings and portraits. Building because it helps straighten line and for portraits because it make people look skinnier.

Yup agreed..

 

[Drake]

Thanks a lot for your opinions . Don't you think the corners sometimes actually look more distorted after the correction? As an example, here's the shot. I know it's just a poor snap, but it illustrates well what I'm trying to show you. The first one is the original, second one has default lens correction applied. To me, all the people and the white van in the bottom left corner look actually more natural in the first shot. Is it just me? And yeah, I know the cathedral looks a thousand times better with it's line straightened.

Guess it's always a compromise, isn't it?

 

[astroNikon]

I should use it more, but the controls are way down at the bottom. lol
But any building, straight lines more than likely I'll use it or at least do manual corrections.

 

[MOREGONE]

I have it built into some presets I use on import (SLR Lounge) so it is on a lot of the time.

But def not always

 

[Alexr25]

Thanks a lot for your opinions . Don't you think the corners sometimes actually look more distorted after the correction? As an example, here's the shot. I know it's just a poor snap, but it illustrates well what I'm trying to show you. The first one is the original, second one has default lens correction applied. To me, all the people and the white van in the bottom left corner look actually more natural in the first shot. Is it just me? And yeah, I know the cathedral looks a thousand times better with it's line straightened.

Guess it's always a compromise, isn't it?

In your example most of the distortion is due to converging verticals caused by having the camera not square on to the subject, i.e. pointing upwards.
The lens profile correction only corrects for pincushion and barrel distortion (which it did quite well in your example), if you want to correct for converging verticals you have to either do it in the manual tab or use the appropriate auto correction in the lens correction basic tab and hope that it works. The auto correction for vertical or horizontal convergence are very much hit and miss, when they work they are brilliant but if they don't like your image they can make a total mess.

 

[ByronBrant]

I rarely use it. I see a loss in detail where it makes corrections. I will use it for architecture shots where the distortion is worse to look at than the loss in detail.

 

[Braineack]

It's the first thing I do in my workflow. I don't typically adjust the sliders though, unless there is a lot of CA or distortion. It's a habit I picked up from online photo editing tutorial.
If it's on the interwebz it must be right...

Why wouldn't you automate it so it's always on when you import?

 

[Braineack]

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I'd leave it off for this type shot and correct for perspective distortion in another program like PS.

before:

after:

U.S. Supreme Court by The Braineack, on Flickr

Library of Congress by The Braineack, on Flickr


Lens correction pretty much keeps lines on the very outermost edges of your frame straight. Without lens correction, this shot above had a pretty good bow to that terrace (i dont have the before of that).

 

[Drake]

Thanks a lot for your opinions . Don't you think the corners sometimes actually look more distorted after the correction? As an example, here's the shot. I know it's just a poor snap, but it illustrates well what I'm trying to show you. The first one is the original, second one has default lens correction applied. To me, all the people and the white van in the bottom left corner look actually more natural in the first shot. Is it just me? And yeah, I know the cathedral looks a thousand times better with it's line straightened.

Guess it's always a compromise, isn't it?

In your example most of the distortion is due to converging verticals caused by having the camera not square on to the subject, i.e. pointing upwards.
The lens profile correction only corrects for pincushion and barrel distortion (which it did quite well in your example), if you want to correct for converging verticals you have to either do it in the manual tab or use the appropriate auto correction in the lens correction basic tab and hope that it works. The auto correction for vertical or horizontal convergence are very much hit and miss, when they work they are brilliant but if they don't like your image they can make a total mess.

Thanks a lot, totally forgot that lens correction isn't equal to perspective correction. Now it makes sense!

 

[Braineack]

Thanks a lot for your opinions . Don't you think the corners sometimes actually look more distorted after the correction? As an example, here's the shot. I know it's just a poor snap, but it illustrates well what I'm trying to show you. The first one is the original, second one has default lens correction applied. To me, all the people and the white van in the bottom left corner look actually more natural in the first shot. Is it just me? And yeah, I know the cathedral looks a thousand times better with it's line straightened.

Guess it's always a compromise, isn't it?

In your example most of the distortion is due to converging verticals caused by having the camera not square on to the subject, i.e. pointing upwards.
The lens profile correction only corrects for pincushion and barrel distortion (which it did quite well in your example), if you want to correct for converging verticals you have to either do it in the manual tab or use the appropriate auto correction in the lens correction basic tab and hope that it works. The auto correction for vertical or horizontal convergence are very much hit and miss, when they work they are brilliant but if they don't like your image they can make a total mess.

Thanks a lot, totally forgot that lens correction isn't equal to perspective correction. Now it makes sense!

much better.

 

[shefjr]

It's the first thing I do in my workflow. I don't typically adjust the sliders though, unless there is a lot of CA or distortion. It's a habit I picked up from online photo editing tutorial.
If it's on the interwebz it must be right...

Why wouldn't you automate it so it's always on when you import?

If that's possible to do I wasn't aware. I'll have to look into that.

 

[mcap1972]

Sometimes with wide angle lens at 1.4 during low light situations.