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PHOTO THREAD: Samsung 16mm f2.4

Started Sep 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
Chris62 Contributing Member • Posts: 693
Re: 16mm lens distortion

ChimPanzer wrote:

I read about this lens that it has quite a notable barrel distortion. Do you correct it with in camera correction or in the post processing?

I use RAW only so always post processing.

Using jpg or RAW + jpg is useless - if even you use RAW you can watch embededed jpg using Irfan View and from NX it is 20 full resolution jpg.

(LX7 embedded jpg has 2 MP only)

But about corrections...it can be Lightroom  does a correction automatically? I do not know.

For sure it does with LX-7 compact camera.

The same file opened in Raw Therapy had wider angle of view and more deformations.

I did not check 16/f2,4 yet in RT. Frankly speaking I do not care - todays lens nearly all are corrected in PP - mostly in MFT system.

The reasons of using 16/2,4 are small size and angle of view of course.

Look that for presentation on Tv-set purposes where aspect ratio is 16:9 we need crop the picture if we want to have Full screen filled up from 3:2 to 16:9.

(This is als cons for me about 4/3 sensor)

This picture could not be taken i.e by 30/F2 because of the object between camera and the car (not visible from this perspective of course) or this picture could be taken but in cropped car version.

I use this lens full open in 90% cases I like the results.

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