Canons DPP with DLO

[RobDickinson]

Canons Digital Light optimisation is something new in 3.11.26 or so , just available for download.

You can download lens profiles for a bunch of well used lenses including my 17-55,100-400, 70-200f2.8IS and mkII , 10-22, 35L etc.

What it does is attempt to correct for known elements in the light path, the lens (ca, distortion etc but a lot more) and the sensor (aa filter etc).

So does it work?

Here is an image I took with the 7D and 17-55 whilst walking the kepler track in April 2010.
ISO 100
f7.1
1/30th
Default conversion with ACR 6.6 and its 17-55 profile



Heres a crop of the lower right 100% from the image above and one processed with DLO



Heres a lower right crop of another image:


This isnt sharpening. I have switched sharpening off on DPP, and only the default sharpening on acr. Zoom in to 400% on the DPP effort and you will find no sharpening artefacts.

This is taken with a 100-400L at 400/5.6 ISO 160. Same, DPP/DLO on the right.



I've seen even more impressive things from corrections for the 35L etc.

This seems to affect the colours... And DPP is still a bit of a mess from a UI point of view, but for that shot you really want to get all you can out of its well worth a look.

[RobDickinson]

Oh heres the full frame of the bird (DLO to CS5 as tif), no sharpening other than bicubic sharper to 1200.

[2slo]

Well that's an even better set of examples than you had with just the House Sparrow on POTN Rob. At least this piece of advice is free! Last time I listened to you I had to buy a 7D + 70-200 f/2.8 L and since then I've had to buy 2 more L series lenses plus I'm now forced to think about a 5D3.
You have a lot to answer for

[14-7]

Slightly confused on this one but the Canon europe site only gives me the 3.4.1 DPP download whereas I already have 3.11.1.0

Would you be able to post a link to the new download?

[rxtx]

Good stuff.

[flat-planedCrank]

14-7 said:

Slightly confused on this one but the Canon europe site only gives me the 3.4.1 DPP download whereas I already have 3.11.1.0

Would you be able to post a link to the new download?

I just went to http://www.canon.co.uk/ > Support > 'Software Download Centre' > *input camera model* > Click the 'software' radio button.

[RobDickinson]

2slo said:

Well that's an even better set of examples than you had with just the House Sparrow on POTN Rob. At least this piece of advice is free! Last time I listened to you I had to buy a 7D + 70-200 f/2.8 L and since then I've had to buy 2 more L series lenses plus I'm now forced to think about a 5D3.
You have a lot to answer for

all the really good people shoot Hassleblad H4d's now.

[jimmy156]

Looks like some pretty good results!

I'm assuming it only has profiles for Canon lenses, not third party ones?

[RobDickinson]

Yep I dont expect any non canon lenses to be profiled, DXO have something similar perhaps they do the lens you want but that product is $$.

please view the images full size if you want the real impact.