For me, chromatic aberrations are the worst aberrations for a lens. Colored fringes make the image look fuzzy, distract and affect the out-of-focus rendering a lot. And in my experience they are not easy to remove. Interestingly, I found CA never been a big problem with my DSLR but more so with mirrorless. With my DSLR, it was much less and I could just check that checkmark in Lightroom and it was mostly gone. With my mirrorless, the checkmark brings very less, even with profiles. I always have to manually select the color and range. And often it also effects the surrounding elements (like a cyan backpack or orange sunset). But the compact lenses and short flange distance increase CA (I guess).

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If moving the Amount sliders doesn’t cure the issue completely, the colour settings of the correction slider may not correspond precisely to the fringing in your photograph. Adjust the colour sliders to so as to include your hue into the range of frigne colours to be detected and corrected.

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If your lens has a lot of chromatic aberration, you can try to avoid it by not shooting very high contrast scenes at wide apertures. Closing down usually helps prevent chromatic aberration significantly. Aperture has more effect on LoCa than on purple fringing.

I generally shy away from lenses with really strong chromatic aberration, even for black & white work because it produces fuzzy edges that I don’t find visually pleasing and even post-processing correction can degrade image quality.

While lens tests at the level of DxO’s and Zeiss’s may not always provide “THE answer” (LOL – whatever the question was!), they do at least provide a bit of insight into the characteristics of particular lenses, in the context of vignetting and chromatic aberration – and perhaps a bit of guidance into how far is “enough”, when you feel you should stop down, to reduce these effects. If indeed they matter – often they don’t, actually – and sometimes vignetting can even help a picture, by leading the eye inwards, to the subject of the shot. Which may be done so subtly that most people don’t even realise the vignetting’s thee.

Welcome to lesson 2. The journey continues with Chromatic Aberration, a slightly more troublesome issue than vignetting, although it can usually be corrected quite easily.

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APO lenses (aprochromatic) are lenses in which in-focus areas of the image are corrected for this aberrations for 3 colours (typically Red, Green and Blue). Very high quality lenses extend this correction to the out of focus areas and further out towards violet and infra-red colours (important because our camera sensors are sensitive to a broader variety of wavelengths than our eyes). Very few lenses, whatever their price and design, extend this perfectly to the out of focus areas.

I kind of think that an old lens with flare and CA and vignetting can be useful in B&W photography, for a retro mood. But in colour, predictably, it all takes its toll and reduces the impression of clarity and purpose of an image. A bit like bad handwriting messes up the content of the message.

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A second form of Loca is visible in out of focus areas. Even in very high quality lenses, such as this high-end portrait lens, below, you can find tell-tale red and green edge lining along high-contrast edges. Red is typically inside focus (closer to the camera than the plane of focus) and green outside focus.

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Recently, read the article by Yannick Khong “The flattening of modern lenses or the death of 3d pop”. I’m not an engineer and can’t evaluate his findings, but he claims that the more you correct a lens with different elements, the flatter your images look. I’m currently on the research of how I can generate the look I want, experimenting with modern and old lenses on E mount, and I found that an interesting idea to test – which I haven’t so far.

Here’s a 100% portion at the center of a high contrast scene. You can see the blue smearing that surrounds the white trellis.Blue is out of focus. What you’re seeing is a sharp image with blue that is out of focus (therefore fuzzy).

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The point here is not to dig into the physics of these aberrations but to understand that chromatic aberrations come in several flavours and create variously damaging effects. When you test your lens, what is importat is to be able to distinguish between spherochromaticism, which is hard to correct, and other forms of chroatic aberrations, which aren’t in most cases.

If profiles aren’t readily available, most editing software will let you use dedicated sliders that gradually correct chroma problems. Set these at the minimum setting that cures the problem satisfyingly. This type of correction is somewhat destructive and severe cases can lead to some loss of sharpness. Most software is set to correct purple or green, by default. See these sliders in Adobe LightRoom, below:

CA in itself doesn’t make the image look retro, but retro lenses had CA. So, it can enhance the retro feel in a retro-processed photograph.

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Then review your photographs and look for purple and red / green fringes as well as pink / green blotches along the high contrast transitions, in or out of focus.

Very nice explaination. I’ve always understood chromatic aberrations – visually – but never technically. Thanks for the breakdown.

If your photographs show signs of this aberration, the best way to correct it is, as for vignetting, to use lens profiles.

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Have you ever seen the effect of a prism on white light? Light in all lenses are bent at an angle which depends partly on the type of glass, partly on the angle at which the ray enters the glass and partly on the colour of the light. White light contains light of all colours from violet to red and each if refracted (bent) at a slightly different angle, which creates the rainbow effect.

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However, some soft-focus lenses such as the old Boyer Opale rely on this aberration for their specific look.And don’t think that because a lens has some chromatic aberration, it is a poor lens. In the examples below, one lens is a 40 year old medium format lens which I used with a tilt-shift adapter and the oher is a range-topping 35mm lens from one of the world’s most prestigious brands. That lens is incredibly good and I can’t see myself ever selling it. Yet it does exhibit almost as much lateral colour as the much older one.

This is the most commonly seen form of chromatic aberration and creates purple halos along high contrast edges. You can see it on my reflection on this shiny motorbike. In benign cases such as this, the effect is barely visible unless you enlarge the image (click any picture for a 100% view). But in more acute cases, the photographs loses its clean aspect. Colours look a bit muddy and the image seems blurred.

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Photo lenses use individual elements with complementary characteristics to cancel out this tendency to create rainbows but rarely succeed completely. Most lenses exhibit some level of chromatic aberration, that is either they are (1) unable to bring all wavelengths of color to the same focal plane, or (2) they focus different colors at different positions in the focal plane, or both. In the first case, the aberration is called longitudinal, in the second it is lateral.

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Both vignetting and chromatic aberration have shown up from time to time on some of my lenses. And with both, it has generally been more apparent at wide aperture.

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Find a high-contrast scene such as the edge of a sunlit window, tree branches against the sky or snow, reflexions in chrome, the sun shining through tree leaves … Make a series of photographs at various apertures with the contrasty edge successively in center and off-center.

Interesting. I’m not sure I agree with all of Yannick’s claims. My OTUS 85 has a lot of glass and a lot of 3D and life. And, to my eyes, the Batis 25 looks less alive (in spite of using fewer glass elements) than the Distagon 2/25. But it is true that the more glass you use, the better the glass and coatings need to be to avoid robbing the image of the micro information that creates 3D. Whenever we do see curved sensor on the market, the lenses will use only 6 or 7 glass elements and we should see the return of very organic looking photographs with loads of 3D.

This was a good explanation of the problem and the visuals are helpful. I have experienced CA but did not really understand the technical causes, especially Loca. I am understanding why lenses respond to certain conditions and when to avoid them if possible or select another lens. A good reason to have more than one of a given focal length if using older lenses.

Thankfully, software such as DxO, C1 or LR do a good job of removing vignette in photographs. So long as they have good profiles for the lens. But some lenses are more tricky than others and removal leads to a host of other problems such as colour shift and lack of colour/contrast info. It’s always nice to have experimented for yourself to really know your gear. Labs can only tell you so much about your real shooting conditions.

Below is the complete photograph, which shows the real-life effect of this hard to correct aberration. You can decide for yourself whether it is an issue for you or not.

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When LoCa is combined with spherical aberration (discussed in a future episode), you obtain spherochromaticism that produces green/ping out of focus blobs, seen above.