Re: Sigma's new HSM 12-24mm DG II
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:39 pm
agorabasta,
Thanks for raising my awareness of this issue. I realize I've seen these distractions many times before but never really properly identified them for what they were. I guess because it really didn't matter so much. I had become vaguely aware of Cornerfix from other readings but never pursued it because most of these little programs seemed like they add extra steps for what could already be accomplished in Photoshop itself, so over the years my collection of little uilities has dwindled. I read over the Cornerfix documentation and just having to first convert to a DNG is not without extra effort and then additionally havng to build profiles for each lens seems even more so. I'd rather be spending my time with creative aspects.
I weigh all this against just adding a selective color layer and in less than two minutes having colors tuned to what I want and this is part of my standard workflow anyway. No muss, no fuss. So I prefer the manual method and can probably fine tune it to what I want better than a Cornerfix profile could anyway. Besides I like the more creative aspect of manual control. Probably no lens is going to give me the exact colors I want all the time and I try not to let any lens get in the way of the result - which is why for me, the 16mm is a great little lens.
I'll take a further look at Cornerfix but most likely will continue the current path.
Ed
Thanks for raising my awareness of this issue. I realize I've seen these distractions many times before but never really properly identified them for what they were. I guess because it really didn't matter so much. I had become vaguely aware of Cornerfix from other readings but never pursued it because most of these little programs seemed like they add extra steps for what could already be accomplished in Photoshop itself, so over the years my collection of little uilities has dwindled. I read over the Cornerfix documentation and just having to first convert to a DNG is not without extra effort and then additionally havng to build profiles for each lens seems even more so. I'd rather be spending my time with creative aspects.
I weigh all this against just adding a selective color layer and in less than two minutes having colors tuned to what I want and this is part of my standard workflow anyway. No muss, no fuss. So I prefer the manual method and can probably fine tune it to what I want better than a Cornerfix profile could anyway. Besides I like the more creative aspect of manual control. Probably no lens is going to give me the exact colors I want all the time and I try not to let any lens get in the way of the result - which is why for me, the 16mm is a great little lens.
I'll take a further look at Cornerfix but most likely will continue the current path.
Ed