topic Best approach to correct for lens distortions RAW in Camera Software

Best approach to correct for lens distortions RAW

peter460 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:30:23 GMT

Having a 6D Mk2 I can either correct for lens distortions ( here I refer to chromatic aberations , vignetting, dispersion, and geometric distortions in general ) in the camera and or in DPP. Even in DPP one can use the optimiser or manuall set the amount of corrections. Now is there a difference between doing it on the camera ( using Canon len data ) or in DPP . Which way is the most "correct - scientific " way and is the default setting technically the best

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Re: Best approach to correct for lens distortions RAW

RobertTheFat — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:54:51 GMT

Does it make a difference? I would have thought not. Anything the camera does can be undone in DPP, can't it?

Re: Best approach to correct for lens distortions RAW

peter460 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:22:10 GMT

Somewhere I saw reading something about the in camera corrections are not as complete as DPP but am unable to confirm. Doing some in camera corrections also limits some other camera features

Re: Best approach to correct for lens distortions RAW

RobertTheFat — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:20:31 GMT

@peter460 wrote:
Somewhere I saw reading something about the in camera corrections are not as complete as DPP but am unable to confirm. Doing some in camera corrections also limits some other camera features

I would think that the only compelling reason for in-camera correction would be that you're planning to save a camera-produced JPEG.