Canon 17-40mm f/4L Distortion: How bad is it?

TylerWTylerW Registered Users Posts: 428 Major grins
edited February 2, 2007 in Cameras
And is it correctible in software?

I rented this lens for an event I shot last autumn and instantly fell in love with it. I'm considering investing in it as a workhorse landscape lens, but worry that I wouldn't ever be able to shoot a flat horizon with it without laying bare its achilles heel for all the world to see.

Any experience out there trying to overcome the wide-end barrel distortions present with this lens?
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Canon 40d | Canon 17-40 f/4L | Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 | Canon 50mm f/1.8 | Canon 70-200mm f/4 L

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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited February 2, 2007
    PTLens

    Also, Photoshop has lens correction built in. But PTLens reads the EXIF and fixes it without doing much other than opening the plug-in and clicking a button.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    Last I checked, Marc Muench shoots with that lens. I'll make sure he sees this thread.

    Myself, I love that lens.
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