Fast, fun and accurate simulation of real-world lens characteristics.
Fully GPU powered, it's simple to use and quick to apply.
Get creative, get technical, and tinker as much as you want.
Real Lenses
Simulate the look of well-known lenses using presets created with real world data.
Access an expanding library of unique lens profiles and enhance your footage.​​
Mix and Match
Combine characteristics from different lenses effortlessly to create impossible lenses.
A Canon FD with the coma of a Helios 44-2? Possible with LensNode.
Overdrive
With a single slider, LensNode allows you to exaggerate the effects of a lens profile to quickly and easily create interesting effects. All parameters can be animated,
and individual characteristics are tuneable to taste.
Coma
Comatic Aberration is one of the most difficult effects to recreate without LensNode, and one of the most critical to the look of many vintage lenses.
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Easy to mistake for bloom or softness, the unique shape, hue, and direction of this aberration are the keys to great lens simulation.
Distortion
Lens distortion is the first touchstone when simulating lenses in visual effects, and accurate distortions are built into the foundation of LensNode.
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The distortion, like everything else in LensNode, can be animated, and it's automatically scaled to fill the frame.
Chromatic Aberration
Lenses split unique wavelengths of light depending on their shape and material.
LensNode creates hue-accurate aberration with a smooth falloff to remain true to the original character of each lens.
Bokeh Blur
LensNode's modelling not only extends to capturing the unique bokeh shape of each lens for edge blur and softening, but rotates it before convolution, making it one of the most accurate lens blurs available.
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This makes LensNode capable of swirly bokeh too, including for lenses that don't naturally exhibit this feature.
Vignette & Color Cast
Vignettes are captured straight from the real lens, and normalized to the exposure of your shot. LensNode vignettes also include subtle hue shifts towards the edge of frame, just like a real lens.
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Color casting is captured in 14-bit raw color, and can be set to affect the whole image, or just the corners.
Bloom
The high performance, accurate, exponential falloff bloom in LensNode brings unmistakable softness and contrast to the image.
Captured and profiled at 14-bit, this bloom rivals the best diffusion filter plugins on the market.
Fringing
LensNode has the ability to emulate the fringing on high contrast areas that some lenses exhibit. The combination of fringing, coma and chromatic aberration are the main characteristics that give a lens its overall texture.
LensNode's fringing can also vary in hue, saturation and lightness across the image from the center to the edges.
LensNode Lite
LensNode Lite is a distilled version of LensNode, designed with fewer controls but running on the same core lens modelling. Lite is for users who want a fast and easy solution for adding style to shots but don't want to tinker in menus or refine specific looks. It includes 8 curated presets, based on amalgamations of different lenses.
Designed for Professionals
Linear internal processing with ACES makes it easy to include LensNode in existing grading and VFX pipelines. It preserves color space and out of range values for high bit depth renders or camera-log inputs.
Fully GPU powered, it's blazing fast out of the box, with quick optimization settings for faster playback on high res footage, or for maximum quality output.
Drag and Drop
LensNode is ready to go as soon as you drop it onto a clip using an OpenFX node.
Pick a lens, set your input colour space, and use a few simple sliders to dial the effect to your taste.
Granular Control
Along with controls for each effect, LensNode includes controls to really dial in your look, manage performance, and make technical tweaks.
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It can be masked with Power Windows and stacked in series to create countless permutations of impossible lenses.
