[LRflex] Re: OT: PTlens
- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:44:07 -0800
You must be using LR2, as LR3 has all those things in it.
Aram
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From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:03 AM
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRflex] Re: OT: PTlens
> PS I don't know as I was looking for an add on / plug-in for LR since
> I find CS5 is WAY too expensive for what I wanted.
>
> So as to LR, yes.
> PTL allows tilts and shifts, plus barrel and pincushion so long as the
> lens is in the database, which LR doesn't at all.
> It also rotates (anti)clockwise, but this LR does fine.
>
> Same feeling about overdoing corrections - but in some case a lens is
> so bad you can't see the original take without shivers ...
>
> Thanks for viewing Aram
> Best
> Ph
>
>
> Le 12 mars 11 à 17:33, Aram Langhans a écrit :
>
>>
>> Nice demo. It's funny. When I have used the features in PS or
>> Lightroom to
>> correct for the keystone effect of pointing a camera upward, I play
>> and play
>> and usually get the lines nice and straight as in your second
>> example, but
>> after looking at it for quite some time, I usually go back to the
>> original,
>> or at least to one that is less perfectly corrected, as the perfect
>> one just
>> looks funny. Maybe it is because after 40+ years of photography, I
>> have
>> just gotten use to the effect, and expect the effect when I view a
>> photo
>> that I know was taken in this manner. So, I will go uncorrect the
>> image and
>> maybe go half way to perfect lines and it looks better to my eye.
>> Maybe my
>> eye needs adjustments. Maybe I should have been weaned on a view
>> camera
>> with all the shifts and tilts so I would have grown up not expecting
>> keystone looking photos.
>>
>> Do I need help?
>>
>> But more on topic, does PTlens do things that PS and Lightroom
>> cannot do?
>>
>> Aram
>>
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>> From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:50 AM
>> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [LRflex] OT: PTlens
>>
>>> I was pointed to this piece of soft when I complained about
>>> vignetting
>>> and distortion on a lens I own.
>>>
>>> A is as is, straight out of the camera
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/PT-Lens-A-0694.jpg.html
>>>
>>> B is overfiddled with in PTlens
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/PT-Lens-B.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Hope this might help some of you
>>> Ph
>>>
>>>
>>>
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