Showing posts with label ptlens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ptlens. Show all posts

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.