Lightroom 3

jerry12953 · 30 Apr 2010

I've been browsing around Lightroom sites today trying to solve an "issue" (we always used to call them problems.....) and discovered that....

Fanfare...............Lightroom 3 will have lens corrections built in.

Oh, right....you already knew that? Oh well! :lol:

bellyman · 30 Apr 2010

jerry12953 said:
I've been browsing around Lightroom sites today trying to solve an "issue" (we always used to call them problems.....) and discovered that....

Fanfare...............Lightroom 3 will have lens corrections built in.

Oh, right....you already knew that? Oh well!

sorry for being lazy and ignorant but just to save me googling and also to get a better answer! my main PROBLEM is ''what is lens correction built in''? is it the same as image stabilisation?

Flossyrockstar · 30 Apr 2010

bellyman said:
sorry for being lazy and ignorant but just to save me googling and also to get a better answer! my main PROBLEM is ''what is lens correction built in''? is it the same as image stabilisation?

No!

awp · 30 Apr 2010

no - it's correction for things like distortion caused by ultra wide angle lenses. Image stabilisation - VR in Nikon speak - is done with the lens - allowing slower shutter speeds than normally expected for a given focal length.

HybridUK · 30 Apr 2010

It mainly to help correct distortion caused by using wide lens. It sometimes distorts the images making straight lens, bend.

HTH

Peter_Hartland · 30 Apr 2010

I believe CS 5 has it as well but havent found it yet

jerry12953 · 30 Apr 2010

Yes, distortion caused by lens design which causes the horizon to appear curved in your pics. (or lines of bricks)

You can correct it in 3rd party software at the moment but to have it built in to LR will be great.

hollis_f · 1 May 2010

Lens correction was the only reason I still had DxO on my PC. When using a wide-angle lens the distortion can do horrible things to people's body shapes. Women tend to find the effect exceptionally objectionable (does my bum look big at this focal length?). At last I can dump it when LR3RC appears.

jerry12953 · 1 May 2010

hollis_f said:
Lens correction was the only reason I still had DxO on my PC. When using a wide-angle lens the distortion can do horrible things to people's body shapes. Women tend to find the effect exceptionally objectionable (does my bum look big at this focal length?). At last I can dump it when LR3RC appears.

I've begun to notice also that on the most badly affected images not only is the horizon curved, the whole image is literally barrel-shaped. Its as if the ribs of the barrel are almost visible!

Obsessive? Moi?