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<blockquote data-quote="paul_b" data-source="post: 322301" data-attributes="member: 15676">Um, i'm not too impressed with distortion correction for my D3100 with kit lens, by either the camera or Nikon software, and to be honest Lightroom's is a bit dodgy too (unless of course i was given a bit of a dodgy lens, lol).DxO seems to get it spot on, and there's quite a difference.That's why I'm experimenting with developing the RAW file now with Capture NX-D (except distortion correction), and correcting the distortion with DxO instead. I don't want to develop everything in DxO instead of Capture NX-D as i don't think the RAW engine is all that (at least for my camera anyway). I don't think DxO or Lightroom get anywhere near getting the Nikon picture control stuff accurate either, and neither can do Active D-Lighting either. That's what draws me back to Capture NX-D.I just need to figure out how to work Capture NX-D now. I've discovered here that it does do vignetting (but ViewNX 2 doesn't (although DxO could)). I wasn't too sure about how to do sharpening with the new Capture NX-D, but it seems like (after reading this thread) that it's done with the unsharp mask, which is something I've never really heard of (up until now).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paul_b, post: 322301, member: 15676"] Um, i'm not too impressed with distortion correction for my D3100 with kit lens, by either the camera or Nikon software, and to be honest Lightroom's is a bit dodgy too (unless of course i was given a bit of a dodgy lens, lol). DxO seems to get it spot on, and there's quite a difference. That's why I'm experimenting with developing the RAW file now with Capture NX-D (except distortion correction), and correcting the distortion with DxO instead. I don't want to develop everything in DxO instead of Capture NX-D as i don't think the RAW engine is all that (at least for my camera anyway). I don't think DxO or Lightroom get anywhere near getting the Nikon picture control stuff accurate either, and neither can do Active D-Lighting either. That's what draws me back to Capture NX-D. I just need to figure out how to work Capture NX-D now. I've discovered here that it does do vignetting (but ViewNX 2 doesn't (although DxO could)). I wasn't too sure about how to do sharpening with the new Capture NX-D, but it seems like (after reading this thread) that it's done with the unsharp mask, which is something I've never really heard of (up until now). [/QUOTE]

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