Correction of Distortion

[cerett]

What is the best and most reasonably priced software (free standing or CS3 plug-in) to correct for wide angle lens distortion?

[Tomas Johanson]

What is the best and most reasonably priced software (free standing or CS3 plug-in) to correct for wide angle lens distortion?
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www.kekus.com
www.panotools.com
www.proxel.se


/Tomas

[Tim Gray]

What about the PS filter falls short of what you want to do?

[etrump]

The lens correction plug-in that comes with photoshop is pretty good.

You can set defaults for each of lens/focol length in your kit using a grid pattern.

filter -> Distortion -> lens correction.

[cerett]

The lens correction plug-in that comes with photoshop is pretty good.

You can set defaults for each of lens/focol length in your kit using a grid pattern.

filter -> Distortion -> lens correction.
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I just installed CS3. I will give it a go. Thank you.

[Dustbak]

I find DXO one of the best. It takes into consideration what lens (actually lens/camera combination) you have used and uses that to calculate what corrections are necessary.

I am not sure what you define being cheap. I believe DXO is about 150euros (200USD).

Ptlens is another but I don't have experience with that one.

[Dam-sv]

What is the best and most reasonably priced software (free standing or CS3 plug-in) to correct for wide angle lens distortion?
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Try Nurizon-Acolens , www.nurizon-software.com/en/

[schaubild]

I find DXO one of the best. It takes into consideration what lens (actually lens/camera combination) you have used and uses that to calculate what corrections are necessary.

I am not sure what you define being cheap. I believe DXO is about 150euros (200USD).

Ptlens is another but I don't have experience with that one.
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I'm not aware of any supported MF cameras in DxO.

Some Rodenstock digital wideangle lenses show pincushion and barrel distortion at the same time, almost impossible to correct.

What equipment do you use?

[Dustbak]

I'm not aware of any supported MF cameras in DxO.

Some Rodenstock digital wideangle lenses show pincushion and barrel distortion at the same time, almost impossible to correct.

What equipment do you use?
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Correct I don't use DXO with one of my MF cameras. I use it with the D200. I have not seen that it is needed for MF equipment.

The Nikkor 12-24 shows the same type of distortion. DXO has a working solution for that, apparently it is doable (I use the Tokina 12-24).

[haefnerphoto]

Image Allign works well for me.  I think there's a review of it on this site somewhere.  Jim

[cerett]

Image Allign works well for me.  I think there's a review of it on this site somewhere.  Jim
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I am using an H2 with a P45 DB. I check out DxO and am aware of that.

Image Align does not support CS3 at this point.

[bradleygibson]

I'm not aware of any supported MF cameras in DxO.

Some Rodenstock digital wideangle lenses show pincushion and barrel distortion at the same time, almost impossible to correct.

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I believe Panorama tools (free) can correct this type of "moustache" distortion, but you have to enter formula coefficients (math), so it's not particularly friendly.

On the plus side, it does perform very high quality corrections, and the price is right (free).

-Brad

[MarkWelsh]

Panorama Tools is very good, and universal in scope: any lens with any distortion on any system can be corrected.

DxO is very good with lenses it knows about, but useless out of the box for anything else. For instance, it will defish a Canon 15mm but not a Sigma 15mm. However, I've worked out a little hack for this that opens up DxO for use with any lens.
 
Please see here: http://www.16-9.net/dxo.html

In the range of lenses covered, DxO has baseline fixes for all kinds of distortion: once you've transplanted the EXIF data from a lens in the DxO database with similar properties, the full range of correction tools are unlocked for fine tuning.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Panorama Tools is very good, and universal in scope: any lens with any distortion on any system can be corrected.

DxO is very good with lenses it knows about, but useless out of the box for anything else. For instance, it will defish a Canon 15mm but not a Sigma 15mm. However, I've worked out a little hack for this that opens up DxO for use with any lens.
 
Please see here: http://www.16-9.net/dxo.html

In the range of lenses covered, DxO has baseline fixes for all kinds of distortion: once you've transplanted the EXIF data from a lens in the DxO database with similar properties, the full range of correction tools are unlocked for fine tuning.
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This sounds interesting, but your link seems to be broken. I get a 404 error.