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The goal of the lensfun library is to provide an open source database of
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photographic lenses and their characteristics. In the past there was an
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effort in this direction (see http://www.epaperpress.com/ptlens/), but then
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author decided to take the commercial route and the database froze at the
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last public stage. This database was used as the basement on which lensfun
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database grew, thanks to PTLens author which gave his permission for this,
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while the code was totally rewritten from scratch (and the database was
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converted to a totally new, XML-based format).
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The lensfun library not only provides a way to read the lens database and
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search for specific things in it, but also offers a set of algorithms for
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correcting images based on detailed knowledge of lens properties and
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calibration data. Right now lensfun is designed to correct distortion,
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transversal (also known as lateral) chromatic aberrations, vignetting, and
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colour contribution of the lens (e.g. when sometimes people says one lens
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gives "yellowish" images and another, say, "bluish").
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WWW: http://lensfun.berlios.de/
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