It's 218 euros until tomorrow, after that it will be twice that sum. I don't know what your current software is, but if you can afford it, I highly recommend the whole suite. And the DeepPrime noie reduction is just spectacular for all lenses and sensors. To answer your specific question: Viewpoint can work as a standalone program, but only on jpegs and tiffs, so you will not have access to those Photolab algoritms that benefit the 10-24 so much. The Lightroom roundtrip, albeit a bit slow, is pretty seamless (they actively support this workflow, unlike CaptureOne who just wants us to plain migrate away from Adobe) ViewPoint and the Filmpack are integrated in Photolab, once you activate the licence (or use the demos). 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. The sharpness improvement is due to PhotoLabs new X-trans demosaic algoritm and their lens correction modules. 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). 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 do mostly street photography, with humans in the frame and this is maes me re-assess my lens choices. This alone justifies the expense for Viewpoint if you shoot with wide angle lenses. Some of the image has got lost at the edges because of the neccesary cropping, but no a big deal.
The correction is pretty spectacular, IMHO. On the right, the result fro DXO with Viewpoint deformation correction control enabled. 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).
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. This is about the Viewpoint add-on, mostly.
Not going to do a full review though, unless I get free copies from DXO -)
Hi, I am testing the new X-Trans support in DXO software, so I though I should share some of my findings.
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