Distortion Correction ALWAYS enabled in NX1 + 16-50S

ARSPR wrote:

A summary reply to all the posts here.

• Yes, I agree that I've been a bit over-expressive with my vocabulary. It's not a life-or-death matter...
• But I still think it's something completely incomprehensible about Samsung decision. I mean, you give the option to turn on/off the distortion correction in a "cheap amateurish" lens (50-200), but you don't give that option with a prime lens (16-50S). Are you nuts?
• (A bit offtopic but nevertheless... I've seen a quite a number of reviews, dpreview's one as example, where the reviewer complain about NX1 not offering any kind of control about the applied level of noise reduction, which can also "kill" (decrease) available detail. But IIRC nobody has complaint about distortion being on all the time... Aren't they similar processes?)
• Samsung is (IMO) absurd about the Distortion Correction decision. But they are not stupid (obviously). SRWs are free from this correction and they MUST remain in this way. The Distortion Correction, (like a future hypothetical NR setting), should be only applied to JPGs. If you shoot in RAW is because you want the MAXIMUM and UNADULTERATED information the sensor has received in order to perform whichever post-processing you desire. Applying any kind of in-camera correction to RAW data would be absolutely nonsense. Either shoot in JPG instead, or perform that correction in your post-process.

You keep getting your facts wrong. You can change the 50-200 because it's not a wide angle lens. The 50-200 may be a "cheap" lens but it's not wide angle. The auto correction only applies to wide angles. Distortion is much greater in wide angles so there's little reason to automatically do it for telephotos. Is that more clear?

I have no argument that it should be an option or a way within Lightroom etc. to overwrite the Samsung profile. But nearly everyone uses the distortion correction in LR anyway. I'd trust the company that actually makes the lens over a third party that can't get the processing of Samsung RAW files right the first time. That's one of many reasons I no longer use LR.

I've read complaints about the noise reduction in Samsung cameras but it doesn't apply to RAW so it's never been an issue for me. If I need jpegs, I create them myself. I know there are some people who need or want jpegs so it might be an issue for them which is why I said it isn't an issue for me. This is something that can be addressed via firmware.