Do the Lightroom lens correction tools make good lenses less important?

Question

Lightroom has Lens Correction tools such as Distortion, Vignetting, Chromatic Abberation, etc. depending on the brand and model of lens.Due to this feature, is it less relevant what the distortion quality is of lenses because Lightroom can correct them?I understand a perfect lens is always better, but since it can save a huge amount of money, maybe the expense is not worth it?

Answer 1

Hey there. Not necessarily. It would still benefit you most to work with high quality lenses (which doesn't always mean high price) so that you don't have to do as much lens correction in post. Depending on the lens you invest in, it may mean you do some lens correction plus a bunch of other corrections to make up for what those tools couldn't take care of completely.

I like to use lens corrections tools for instances when I use a fish eye or other wide angle lens to account for lines and what not, but wouldn't necessarily rely on what those tools would do if my lens isn't the best.

Hope this helps!