On some cameras, lens corrections are embedded in the raw files and 
automatically applied by raw converters that honor the lens correction 
metadata. Not all raw converters allow you to disable the lens corrections. Nor 
should you, because such cameras and lenses are designed to be used with lens 
correction as part of the total imaging system and won't perform as well 
without it.

Noise reduction in-camera usually means two things: 

- "Long exposure noise reduction" is most typically dark frame subtraction 
where beyond a certain exposure length the camera makes the exposure, then 
immediately collects noise data from the sensor without opening the shutter in 
a similar length exposure in order to model the noise alone. It uses that to 
subtract out the noise in the captured image. 

- "Noise filtering" is normally a post-capture process applied to the RGB/JPEG 
rendering process. It operates much as noise reduction processing does in 
various image processing apps in post. 

On many cameras, filtering can be adjusted for strength and both can be turned 
off entirely. On others, there are no such options. 

When I have the option, I usually leave long exposure noise reduction on but 
turn off noise filtering. Long exposure noise reduction can be a serious pain 
when you're working with very long exposures, however.

G

> On May 14, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think you have it right. I don't know if I turned those corrections off, 
> but I figure since I shoot RAW it doesn't matter. I think noise reduction 
> affects RAW but not sure. I leave it on "auto." I think the Pentax engineers 
> are smarter than me.

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