Optical Corrections

[mgilvey]

I'd like to order a tool for correcting lens barrel distortion and perspective. Wouldn't it be great if we had 50 images where the camera didn't move but becuase of the wide-angle lens and the angle, there was some distortion and perspective correction needed, if it were possibel to set points that could be pushed and pulled and those points/corrections could be appied to a batch of images.

That's my next wish.

[LSI_Noack]

Dear MGilvey

we also did think about such a helpful utility before, which is not trivial to implement, however.
Though you are for now left to use third party tools for this purpose, I did enter your request into our development database.

Thanks for your inspiration and kind regards
Sonny Noack
- tech support, LSI AG -

[mgilvey]

Awesome! It just seems like a natural thing to have. I mean as long as we're on the topic of making these kinds of corrections at the time of a scan or when an RAW file is processd.

Thanks

[degrub]

you might have a search in the astronomy field. They have all sorts of tricks and software for dealing with optical aberrations. i don't have direct knowledge of any particular software though.

Frank

[BB]

There used to be Panorama Tools by Prof. Dersch of the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, now continued at
http://panotools.sourceforge.net/

For the Mac, there is
http://www.kekus.com/
I didn't try yet, but it might be worth the investment.

Regards,
BB

[mgilvey]

Those look like great programs but they also appear to still be in their infancy. You should buy the company and improve it!

[RAG]

There is a PhotoShop plug-in called DCE that has a tool for this.

[BB]

DCE's features look useful, but this software is only for Windows:
http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/

bb

[mgilvey]

Yea, I sent them a note requesting they make a Mac version.

[degrub]

Maybe this would be usefull

DxO Labs Optics Pro 2.0 - user controlled correction for distortion and vignetting......

[mgilvey]

Cool, thanks!