Free lens/camera body correction software.

Posted by: fatcat on 08 March 2015

Digital Camera magazine are giving away a free copy of DxO optics pro 8 software. It’s not the most up to date version, (version 10 has just been released) but it produces some pretty amazing results. The program identifies the lens/body combination and using data obtained by testing that combination modifies the image to remove chromatic aberration.

It’s also very good at bringing out detail in under exposed parts of a photo. Not the best/most powerful processing software available, but it produces some excellent results using the default settings, simply drag and drop a raw image and it automatically applies the correction.

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Posted on: 08 March 2015 by winkyincanada

I downloaded and tried this while back but couldn't see any worthwhile effect on my images, so I deleted it again.

Posted on: 08 March 2015 by fatcat
Originally Posted by winkyincanada:

I downloaded and tried this while back but couldn't see any worthwhile effect on my images, so I deleted it again.

Obviously, it's impossible to correct perfect images, but not everybody takes perfect images.

Posted on: 09 March 2015 by Steve J

Thanks fatcat but I have lens/body correction on Lightroom.

Posted on: 09 March 2015 by Huge

DxO applies more thorough corrections than profiles in LR.  For instance it adjusts it's sharpening according to the AA filter on the sensor and also for the fall off of the resolution of the lens at different apertures and applies different adjustments across the image to allow for the edge having lower resolution than the centre.

 

The current version also has what is possibly the best noise reduction algorithm in the business.  It also has a facility to control the appearance of atmospheric haze that also has an extraordinary ability to clean up images taken through less than perfectly clean windows.

 

If you only use top-line fixed focal length lenses of moderate focal length in good shooting conditions, then the difference probably isn't that great.  In fact with very careful manual tweaking, ACR can  sometimes actually do slightly better than DxO.