Lensdoc is a very slick package. I'd recommend it if you do a lot of
correction, as the UI is nice. It's not cheap though at $99. Much of the
quality of such packages depends on the quality and methodology of their
interpolater, as the program has to both infer and subtract pixels as the
images gets corrected. A better quality interpolation routine produces better
quality output; but in the end, the pixels are still made up, not captured.
I personally use Panorama Tools' perspective correction, where you can choose
interpolation methods. But it's definitely a blunt instrument in the User
Interface department. The UI is nowhere near as nice as Lensdoc's.
If you do the occasional perspective correction, then Photoshop, etc. will do
just fine. If you're a professional architectural user, then the 24-shift is
the way to go, as its quality is unsurpassed.
I know where there's a 24 shift FS if anyone is interested. Please reply
offlist to skipwilliams at pobox dot com.
Skip
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Subject: [OM] Re: Shift Lens on E1?/software alternatives
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:19:57 -0400
To: Olympus mail list <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Rob said:
>How about this: Anyone had good results correcting perspective in software?
>This looks good: <http://www.andromeda.com/info/lensdoc/>
>
>Zuiko 24 shift = ~$1400
>Lens Doc = $99.
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>Or, you could buy Picture Window Pro <http://www.dl-c.com/Temp/> for the
>same price (or $10 less if you're willing to do a big download). PW Pro
>will do all that LensDoc does plus most of what Photoshop does (except
>layers). Too bad PW Pro functionality isn't available as a plug-in to
>PhotoShop.
>
>Perspective correction in software works well except that you have to
>keep in mind that you are stretching the image in at least one
>dimension. This reduces the real resolution and the missing data has to
>be filled in by interpolation. Whether the result is acceptable depends
>on the final size of the image.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
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