This is about the Viewpoint add-on, mostly. I thought at first, 'what the heck, should I pay extra to get keystoning? Don't count on me!!' but finally I downloaded the thing and tested on some wide angle shots. Here's the result.įirst, a test shot with the 10-24mm On the left, the raw file as developed by Lightroom (same result in CaptureOne). On the right, the result fro DXO with Viewpoint deformation correction control enabled. The correction is pretty spectacular, IMHO. Some of the image has got lost at the edges because of the neccesary cropping, but no a big deal. This alone justifies the expense for Viewpoint if you shoot with wide angle lenses. I do mostly street photography, with humans in the frame and this is maes me re-assess my lens choices. Maybe landscape photographers coulkd find find this helpfull too, but I can't really comment on that I didn't find much use for the 10-24mm before, because of these deformations, that made my images look pretty much like special effects showcases. I bought the DXO software suite (actually just pulled the trigger before the 50% BF discount expires, otherwise it would have been way beyond my budget). The sharpness improvement is due to PhotoLabs new X-trans demosaic algoritm and their lens correction modules. My workflow remains Lightroom based: I import/catalogue and cull in LR, then I export to Photolab5 if needed, do what I think that should be done in there, then export to Lightroom again and finish the process. ViewPoint and the Filmpack are integrated in Photolab, once you activate the licence (or use the demos).

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