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Lens correction

If you want to find out about the quality of lenses you should refer to the dxomark website. http://www.dxomark.com// It is a complete database of new lenses including most prices. Search Digital Cameras by Features and Specifications | Neocamera Neocamera provides a better search for features of lenses. Dxomark provides lens databases and lens correction software that is most complete. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/dxo/optics-pro.htm For commercial software, Adobe Photoshop's Lightroom is good. You can download a trial version for 30 days.  http://www.adobe.com/sea/products/photoshop-lightroom.html To know more about lens corrections you can read this website.  http://photographylife.com/lightroom-lens-corrections It will direct you to the free software on how to create lens profiles yourself. I followed the tutorials and managed to correct my Sony NEX3N pictures because its lens database is available there but didn't commit because I don't see much poi...

Pixoto is a good place to test your photograph

http://www.pixoto.com/feed It is free and you can gain credit by voting. You don't need to be a professional in order to compete. There are categories for various mobile phones.

Updating Exif data in your photographs and images

Geosetter in Windows 7 is good and the best but it cannot do what it is supposed to be able to do, which is to change a large number of files all at once. As far as possible, make changes using geosetter. Geosetter actually uses exiftool and gpsbabel. geosetter will update exiftool for you automatically but it will install it for you only for use by geosetter. Other programs cannot use it. exiftool is a command line tool that is very powerful. It can set all files even within subdirectories. You can search for it in C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoSetter\tools or you can download it. Edit the enviroment variable PATH for user to the path where exiftool resides. Use computer>properties>advanced system properties>environment variables. The difficulty is in finding the names of tags and the values to put into them. The date taken is called datetimeoriginal. The time to enter is YYYY:MM:DDHH:MM:SS+ZZ:ZZ I should use the command exiftool -overwrite_original -datetimeorigi...