Should I use in-camera lens aberration correction or Lightroom when shooting RAW on a Canon 6D Mark II?

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I shoot mostly RAW on a Canon EOS 6D Mark II and edit in Lightroom. Lightroom can automatically apply lens correction profiles, but the camera also has in-camera lens aberration correction settings. If I enable those settings, do they affect the RAW file itself or only the in-camera JPEG/preview? And when working from RAW, is it generally better to leave the camera corrections off and handle lens corrections later in Lightroom or Canon DPP?

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These features affect only the JPEG generated in-camera. For RAW processing, you can achieve the same results in Canon's DPP. Or use LR.

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On the Canon 6D Mark II, the in-camera lens aberration correction settings affect the camera-generated JPEGs and previews, not the underlying RAW image data. So if you shoot RAW and edit in Lightroom, those camera settings generally do not change the actual RAW file you import.

For RAW workflow, it’s usually simplest to leave correction decisions to your RAW processor, such as Lightroom or Canon DPP, where you can apply lens profiles non-destructively and adjust them as needed.

So in practice:

  • Shooting RAW + Lightroom: use Lightroom’s lens corrections.
  • Shooting JPEG in-camera: the camera’s correction settings matter.
  • Shooting RAW+JPEG: the JPEG may be corrected in-camera, while the RAW remains uncorrected.

One caveat noted in the discussion: this behavior is not universal across all camera/lens systems. Some newer lens designs in other systems may rely heavily on built-in correction for JPEG output, and some corrections may be harder or impossible to fully disable. But for your 6D Mark II RAW workflow, Lightroom or DPP is the relevant place to handle lens corrections.

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