They got me. The beta of version 3 of DXO Optics Pro was good enough to make me shell out for version 2.2 with the promise of a free upgrade to 3.0 when it comes out. It does a great job of subtly tweaking images to squeeze every last detail and nuance in a semi-automatic way. I’ve a feeling it will help enormously in preprocessing images that I’ll be stitching together in a panorama. Because they profile the exact body/lens combination in detail at every possible aperture for lateral aberration, distortion, softness etc. they can compensate for any small weakness the lens may have. In particular I’m surprised at how much vignetting can be in a shot before you see it clearly. The image still suffers, but the cause is not so clear. Maybe to a profressional photographer it would be, but hey…

…is a carrier bag half full of free Flipsters. Think of them as younger gimmers’ Werthers Originals.

We’ve been away in Paris and it’s been fabulous but extremely knackering. Only just got all the photos downloaded and submitted one for PhotoFriday. I will write probably at length about the trip. Just not now. Sleep now. Mmmm.