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G16: lens aberrations in JPGs?

Started Jul 28, 2015 | Discussions
madhg New Member • Posts: 11
G16: lens aberrations in JPGs?

I have a G11, and normally shoot in RAW, partly in the hope of getting slightly more dynamic range, but also because in JPG, there is sometimes visible and annoying chromatic aberration - in the corners of some high-contrast pictures, e.g. buildings against a bright sky.  Also distortion.  I can get rid of the distortion easily (PTLens) but correcting CA in JPGs I find very tricky.  In RAW it is automatically corrected when converting with Digital Photo Prof.

I'm considering upgrading to G16, which gets v good reviews.  Does it correct aberrations in JPG output, in the way that my old Panasonic FZ35 did?

Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot G16
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OP madhg New Member • Posts: 11
Re: G16: lens aberrations in JPGs?
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Well, I guess it's obvious to most people that the answer is yes, the camera does CA correction as well as noise reduction for JPG output.  Canon has moved on since the G11, unsurprisingly.

I bought the G16, here is a small crop (about 190x225 of a 4000x3000 image) of the JPG and RAW images taken from a single shot using the RAW+JPG shooting option.

detail of JPG

detail of RAW file converted to tiff without lens corrections, then to jpg

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