Lens Correction = Voodoo Magic?

[edgley]

And so I have found this innocent little box called Enable Profile Correction.
Wow. And thats from someone who has played with content aware fill!
It seems that it pushes out the centre of my pictures and lightens the corners.I am amazed that some lenses need so much.
Is there anything I am missing, because I think that I should turn it on for all my shots.
Thanks.

 

[Brad Snyder]

I'd say it depends on the lenses you use most frequently.

 

[wblink]

Why Brad?
Not a known lens: no correction.

 

[RikkFlohr]

Sometimes the distortion has more impact than would a corrected version.

I can see me doing it occasionally for some lenses, never for others and more-often-than-not on others but never on every image in my library.