Lightroom’s Lens Profile Correction for iPhone

One of the more excellent features in Adobe Lightroom (3 and 4) is the way it can quickly correct the distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting that is present in almost all lenses. It carries profiles for most major lenses and can apply them as fas as checking a box. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but recently I noticed there is even a built-in profile for the iPhone’s lens. Now, the adjustments are not major by any stretch, but they are pretty noticeable, and they make an already powerful little lens look even less like a mere cameraphone. Here’s a photo with some clear horizontals and verticals that illustrate how the iPhones lens does spherize distort a scene just a little bit.

Here is the same photo with Lightroom’s profile correction applied. The straight lines are a little straighter, and there is slightly less vignetting. The changes are very subtle, but I really do notice them and really appreciate Lightroom including them. The mighty iPhone feels even more powerful with this!

Just for effect, let’s see the two photos flip back and forth. Verrry subtle. But, cool!

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