He decided to rent the G5X II from Lensrentals and came over before he got it to practice a bit on mine. He wanted to shoot Raw, but doesn't have (or really need) Photoshop. The rental experience itself went just fine.
I got a message from France that his JPEGs looked great, but the Raw shots had terrible distortion and vignetting. I told him that the JPEGs had profile corrections done in camera, but the Raw ones did not. That would come with his editing software. To be safe, he started shooting Raw+JPEG.
When he got home, he found that piccata or whatever he uses on his PC to edit does not apply lens profiles. He tried downloading the Canon software, but didn't have a serial number. He called Canon customer service and explained the situation (including that he really had wanted to buy the camera), and they gave him a temporary serial number to use for downloads. So he opened Raw files in the software, and lo and behold, the distortion and vignetting were gone. I told him that rather than adding another pound of glass to correct everything, much is now done in software, even in expensive wide-angle lenses.
I got a message from France that his JPEGs looked great, but the Raw shots had terrible distortion and vignetting. I told him that the JPEGs had profile corrections done in camera, but the Raw ones did not. That would come with his editing software. To be safe, he started shooting Raw+JPEG.
When he got home, he found that piccata or whatever he uses on his PC to edit does not apply lens profiles. He tried downloading the Canon software, but didn't have a serial number. He called Canon customer service and explained the situation (including that he really had wanted to buy the camera), and they gave him a temporary serial number to use for downloads. So he opened Raw files in the software, and lo and behold, the distortion and vignetting were gone. I told him that rather than adding another pound of glass to correct everything, much is now done in software, even in expensive wide-angle lenses.
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