10-20 Lens correction?

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Afternoon,

Until my mac died on Saturday I have been using the basic lens correction tool in Lightroom to help with some of there effects of my Sigma 10-20 lens. Now with a new mac and Catalina I find that Lightroom is not supported and I am left with a problem - looking for something that will do a similar job.

I have downloaded DXO Photolab and hoping that Lens Correction does not require DXO VP3 to do a basic alteration. Does it? I can't see anywhere in PL? Grateful for your advice - is there a simple 64bit application out there?
 
Lightroom should work on Catalina - it does on my computer - Lightroom 6.14
 
There are a number of known issues - as Apple very happily pointed out to me earlier. I have the standalone version of Lightroom and it seems to crash a lot and seems far slower.
 
Sadly you need to buy DXO Viewpoint - £69. DXO Optics pro used to have perspective correction built in, but from version 10 or 11 they separated it out (I had 9 with it in, 11 without).

Were you previously using LR 5 or 6? If it was 6 and you can't get it working & want to sell your license key, I could be interested.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Were you previously using LR 5 or 6? If it was 6 and you can't get it working & want to sell your license key, I could be interested.
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I have the standalone version 6.0 on Mac - no updates. It crashes regularly at the moment - I have ordered a ram upgrade as Apple have suggested that may be the answer and trying Viewpoint as a demo. I have not put the effort in so far but it doesn't appear to be as simple as I had hoped (or as simple as Lightroom). I will give you a shout if moving LR on is an option when I know more.
 
I've not tried viewpoint, but in DXO it relied on adjusting a parallelogram over the image to control how it was warped. It's quite effective at smaller adjustments but would do stupid things if you wanted to make more than a small adjustment. If I were going to have to spend that kind of money I might well look at Luminar or On1 (or even GIMP freeware) as an alternative.
 
Thanks Steve. I guess you pros better understand the technique better than I, but a number of angles in a small space can be difficult (for me at least) to manage effectively. Also I guess I got a little more lazy when one click was able to deal with the worst of the issue when it needed some help.
 
its not always possible to do what I suggested . just keep it as level as you can in the space you have to work. one of the downside of wide angles lens is that converging vertical become points. if the camera is tilted up to far. its worth going out and experimenting a block of flats or an office building is useful for this
 
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Unfortunately I have found that is exactly the issue that needs correction. Bathrooms and kitchens tend (imho) to look better when pictures are taken slightly looking down onto work surfaces and low looking slightly up in bathrooms. Different things and opinions for all accepted but it tends, as you say, for the verticals you look wrong. Lightroom was great at correcting.

I have followed Apple suggestion that additional memory may help LR run better or at least minimise the crashing. When I spoke to the presale advisors this was one of the issues we spoke about so I was a little unprepared for the issue. I am sure I will get around it - had my previous iMac not suddenly hit the stop line time would have been kinder!
 
steve_lyt said:
you could try keeping the camera level as far back from the subject as you can and cropping the image , this would make verticals straighter.
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However that slightly defeats having a wideangle.
 
ancient_mariner said:
However that slightly defeats having a wideangle.
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And is not what I want to always happen. DXO Viewpoint seems to be perfect for my needs - I just have to summon the courage to pay the £98 to buy the full version. New flash, iMac, Office 2019 and a memory upgrade in one weekend was a bit of a shocker. My battery charger also died this morning. Stay away from me guys. I’m toxic.
 
Tulipone said:
And is not what I want to always happen. DXO Viewpoint seems to be perfect for my needs - I just have to summon the courage to pay the £98 to buy the full version. New flash, iMac, Office 2019 and a memory upgrade in one weekend was a bit of a shocker. My battery charger also died this morning. Stay away from me guys. I’m toxic.
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It might actually be cheaper to just buy Photoraw that comes with it built in already & only use it when you need to.
 
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