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Anonymous

Question

RAW files fish-eye effect and grainy exports

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 25, 2026
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So for the last few months I've come across a problem in Lightroom working on my RAW files.

I import both in RAW and JPEG, and the RAW (RAF) files from my Fujifilm X-T5 camera get a weird fish eye effect on them. I can work around that by twiddling with the in the editing menu where it says Optics and Enable Lens Corrections - but then I have to do that for every single photo and that's not ideal.

Another problem is that after exporting these photos look grainy when they shouldn't be, and that didn't use to be the case either. So I suppose somewhere along the way I must've activated some really unfortunate setting.

Interestingly, when I look at older RAW photos from my Canon 70D camera I don't get this fish eye warped effect. The exports are still grainy though.

Would very appreciate any input as to what I can do to fix this. JPEG duplicates are fine and make a nicer export than the RAW files.... I'm using version 9.1.

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Anonymous

I'm adding a couple of photos so you can see for yourself. Here I've exported the RAF RAW file (named ryggsekk_RAF) and exported the JPEG (called ryggsekk_JPEG)

I've done nothing to the photos besides exporting them, under the same export settings. As you can see the JPEG export looks a lot nicer. If you alternative between the photos to compare them you might see this fish-eye effect I'm talking about too, although that's more apparent when the person is facing the other way.

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drtonyb

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@44044773

There is no fish-eye effect in the RAF exported photo sample that you have provided. The JPEG version, which I assume is out of the camera, appears to show lens correction has been applied in the camera. The RAF version appears to have no lens correction. Normally, if lens correction is set in the camera, as this appears to be the case, when Lr opens it, lens correction is applied and should indicate that by having the Enable Lens Correction option checked in the Optics panel.

You were asked to share an example RAF file. Your response was "I just posted an example here in this thread!", but I see no shared RAF file for others to test.

GoldingD

Legend

It might be helpfull if you can post an example RAF in a share such as Dropbox.

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Anonymous

I just posted an example here in this thread!

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Yes, it is confusing, especially because Lightroom Classic (which has existed since 2006) was originally named "Lightroom".

The cloud version, which you are indeed using, was introduced nine years ago. The old Lightroom was then renamed to Lightroom Classic, and the new version was named Lightroom.

I assume that the first screenshot is a jpg from the camera, and the second is exported from the raw file.

The jpg has had noise reduction applied in the camera.

The raw file has not had any noise reduction applied, and you have to apply that yourself in Lightroom.

Since I don't use Lightroom (I use Lightroom Classic), I'll leave it to other Lightroom users to help you with that.

I do not see any fisheye effect at all. If there is a difference, it might be that the raw file hasn't had any lens corrections applied in Lightroom.

The viewer for attachments is broken, so I had to download your files.

Please use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar to insert images.

I would have inserted your jpgs here, but one of them is too large to be inserted, max size is 8 MB.

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drtonyb

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@44044773

You are using Lightroom. Lightroom Classic's lens correction panel is called Lens Corrections. The equivalent in Lr is called Optics.

@Per Berntsen calling Lr the cloudy version is so misleading. It is Lightroom. The current version of LrC is actually 15.1.1.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

@Per Berntsen calling Lr the cloudy version is so misleading. It is Lightroom. The current version of LrC is actually 15.1.1.

By @drtonyb

Lightroom is commonly called the cloud version, because, unlike Lightroom Classic, it stores images in the cloud.

Adobe's unfortunate naming conventions have created a lot of confusion.

I'll ask a moderator to move this thread to the Lightroom ecosystem (Cloud based) forum.

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Anonymous

That is confusing, indeed!

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Would very appreciate any input as to what I can do to fix this. JPEG duplicates are fine and make a nicer export than the RAW files.... I'm using version 9.1.

By @44044773

You have posted in the Lightroom Classic forum, and LrC is currently on version 15.1.

You're using version 9.1, which is the current version of the cloud version, which is named Lightroom.

Please confirm what application you're using – Lightroom or Lightroom Classic.

If you're using Lightroom (which I suspect), a moderator can move your post to the Lightroom ecosystem forum.

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Anonymous

I'm using the desktop app - won't that make it the Lightroom classic? If not, then I don't really know which one I'm using!

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Please go to Help > About Lightroom. What does it say?

If you are using Lightroom Classic, it will say Lightroom Classic, like this:

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