So plug-ins are good - they can add functionality you want without making for extra cost and bloat for everyone else who don't want that functionality. Building and maintaining the database of hundreds of legacy lenses simply is not something someone can do in their spare time! And it is not something you would want Martin and Gerhard doing instead of developing the core functions of PL. If you go to the PTLens website you'll see the reason why a plug-in like that is a plug-in rather than a native part of programs. One example of this is one I've mentioned on another thread - Kekus's LensFix, and its "friendly competitor" (they use the same database), PTLens. Only a limited number of users of any given graphics program would use them, so they would not be worth developing for any single program (except something with the 500 kg gorilla market characteristics of P'shop, of course) but they are worth developing for users across many programs. There are simply some things which are quite specialized and it would be stretching program developers unnecessarily to include them. Now, I tend to have pretty limited demand for them but there is no doubt that there is room for plug-ins.
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