P: Support lens profiles for Olympus ZUIKO Digital lenses (E-System)

Steve,

thank you for your support, here is my new thread:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

I welcome any further help.

I think I would start a new feedback thread. You might want to link to this discussion in the new one in case anyone is wanting to check what you're talking about, but make the new request simple:

I have two lens profiles (for whatever camera/lens combo) I've created with the ALPC and would like to submit them for inclusion in the ALPD, just like I did a few years ago: link to this thread.

If you need to explain that the lenses are manual lenses or otherwise the lens LR detects will be wrong and that you added EXIF to make the ALPD work, fine, mention that, again.

If it is required that the user using the profiles also has to add EXIF information to their raws for LR to pick the right profile segment (rather than just the first one all the time if the EXIF is missing or a different lens if the combination is seen as only one of the component lenses) then it'd probably be worth splitting the lens-profiles into multiple files with one segment per file so someone can manually select the right one if need be. I don't know how many segments you've broken the profiles into so maybe that would be a ridiculous amount of profiles to manually select between, but if there are only a few a separated profile might be good to include, along with the one that has all the segments combined into it.

Sorry for creating some confusion.

I am asking Adobe to add lens profiles I have created to Adobe's LPD for others to use. Do you recommend to start a new thread for this issue?

And you answered that and I thank you.

And my original reply to you answered your question.

Gerald started the original thread your reply was merged into over three years ago, so is replying about things relevant to him and I'm trying to figure out exactly what that is.

All I was wondering was why Olympus lenses did not show up in the lens profile list in Lightroom light the lenses for my Canon do.

Thanks

What are you asking Adobe to do with your recent posts of this thread, to add lens profiles you've created to their LPD for others to use or are you asking for Adobe to change something about how lenses are detected that depends on EXIFTool (a third party application) being used to update information in each raw file taken, or what?

One concern I have is that you're adding to a thread that is marked Implemented so I don't know as Adobe would be reading these comments three years later, and it might be wise to start a new thread for a new issue or another request for the same issue.

Steve,

so far, I have been using the Adobe's Lens Profile Editor and created lens profiles for the the older Olympus E-System. As body, I used the last DSLR camera of Olympus, the E-5 that belongs to the E-System (which supports FT, but does not run with mFT lenses). And Adobe provides all my lens profiles via the Lens Profile Downloader to the community. You can find them in the Olympus E-5 section of the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader. This is fine.

In between, I sold the E-5. I am actually working now with the newer OM-D E-M1. This is a great camera that fills the gap by supporting both systems, the younger mFT lenses, but also lenses from the older E-System. I will continue to explain.

If you see the E-M1 as a "mFT" camera and if you use mFT lenses with autofocus, then I share your idea: for that case you do not need lens profiles because mFT lenses have another way to communicate with Adobe Camera Raw - this is great.

But what if you are using lenses that cannot communicate with the body because they only support manual focus? Or what if you are using E-Sytem lenses with the E-M1? E.g., Spencer talked about the Zuiko 12-60, and I talked about the Zuiko 14-35:

THESE LENSES ARE NOT PART OF THE MICRO FOUR THIRDS SYSTEM, THEY BELONG TO THE OLDER E-SYSTEM AN DISERVE
--- LENS PROFILES ---

Please update Adobe's policy, you need to look first at the lens system being used and then at the body in action.

The Voigtlander Nokton 17,5 f0.95 is a manual lens which means, it cannot communicate with the body, which means, the body does not know anything about the lens in use. So, how did I succeed in this case to set-up a lens profile with Adobe's Lens Profile Editor? I needed to add the lens model and aperture values after the shooting into the EXIF section of the DNGs, separately. I did this with EXIFTOOL, which is well known on the market for such stuff.

My lens profiles refer to the
1.) Four Third Zuiko 14-35 f2.0 super high grade lens and to the
2.) Voigtlander Nokton 17,5 f0.95

Both are high-end lenses, hot loved and frequently used in the foto community.
These two lenses are real "role models" for the use of Adobe's Lens Profile Downloader.

Thanks