Monday, July 28, 2008

First Impression on PTLens

Read about this lens correction software on DPReview. Since it's quite affordable($15), I decided to give it a try.

The installation went smoothly. I could find the stand-alone version in my desktop, but I couldn't find the plugin in my Photoshop cs3. I probably have to install it manually later.

I tried it on an image I took with my fish eye lens. After opening it, it looks like this:



After chose the perspective tab and clicked the "fish-eye" radio button. It showed an corrected view but you could see a lot of details are lost due to the correction. Also, the horizon is not leveled (due to the capture).


OK, fish-eye was probably too extreme, not a good sample. I tried it on images taken with other lens (17-35mm on the 35mm side, 105mm, 24-70mm) the correction was too small to be noticeable.

I didn't have time to try more samples. Overall impression is: for $15, the program seems to be solid and easy-to-use. For now I think I can live without it; Photoshop is enough.

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