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

Are you saying your previous profiles are available via the Lens Profile Downloader?

Hi Steve,

I would like to point out that Olympus bodies like the OM-D E-M1 supports mFT and Four Thirds lenses in parallel. For the latter, lens profiles still make sense. I provided TWO profiles to Adobe two months ago, one for the manual lens Voigtlander Nokton 17,5 and the other for the Four Third lens Zuiko 14-35 f2.0 on an E-M1. You should provide these profiles to the community as what you did with my other profiles. Both are NOT micro Four Thirds but enjoy high popularity and convince as super high grade lenses. To update your policy: the body does not make the decision, it is the lense that counts!

Lens profiles for mirrorless cameras are already included, but they are not listed because they are always on so it doesn't make sense to have them selectable.

In other words the profiles are not listed but they are already included.

Are you planning on adding profiles for the micro 4/3 lenses mentioned above. I have lightroom 5.7 and Photoshop CC 2014 and neither lens is listed.

Thanks

I am using Lightroom for several years now and I like it a lot. There is just one problem. I have an Olypus E620 SLR with an expensive Olympus 12-60 mm lens. In the Development Mode is a lens correction tool, where one can choose a lot of lenses. But there are no Olympus/Zuiko lenses at all. I really think that Olympus is a good en much used camera brand and it should not be missing in LR. My lens is a 12-60 mm. Can you provide LR with this profile in the next update?

IMHO, this is one of several relatively small things that Olympus needs to fix and get fixed for their cameras to really break out among serious photographers.

With myself as an example of one, I've recently sold all my Nikon DX gear and decided to go either Nikon FX or Olympus E-M1. For Olympus, it would be the FT lenses as a tripod mount is an absolute requirement. The other problem for me is that the body is still just too small even with the grip for handheld operation, everything is too close together. Mounted on a tripod (50-200) I can poke at the buttons but handheld with the 12-60 is just not workable.

Furthermore Olympus needs to take the mFT lens line forward with pro long lenses: 50-200, 100 macro, 100-400 and all with tripod mounts and close focusing capability (well, obvious for the macro).

Eric

I would like to come back again to the main concern of this thread. OLYMPUS launched the OM-D E-M1 about half a year ago. Meanwhile, the proprietary ORF raw file format of the camera is being supported by ACR and Lightroom. The OM-D E-M1 has brought back OLYMPUS' image to produce camera systems that meets modern professional requirements. Above all, the noise of the ambitiously small-sized sensor has been significantly reduced, even for higher ISO.

However, the OM-D E-M1 also holds other promises: It merges the usage of both systems, i.e., the usage of micro four thirds (mFT) AND four thirds (FT) lenses. The latter is possible with the aid of an adapter. OLYMPUS has announced officially that they will continue with the manufacturing of their FT lens system. However, OLYMPUS has no intention to further develop new FT lenses for the moment.

Ultimately, the question of having available FT lens profiles in ACR and Lightroom, this has become definitely a topic again that was brought back with the launch of the E-M1.

In contrast to other statements in this thread, OLYMPUS communicated its willingness to support this idea at the E-M1 roadshow in Germany: "We (OLYMPUS) already had provided all the necessary data to Adobe for FT lens profiles at professional level."

Now here is my question: Does Adobe expect this type of data in a very special format? Is it possible that OLYMPUS provided this data but unfortunately in a format that Adobe could not use/did not accept?

The free software "Adobe Lens Profile Creator" has a function that is called "Batch Convert Lens Design Data..." that expects lens design data directly from the lens vendors. Is THIS the workflow what Adobe expects from OLYMPUS to provide lens design data? And if so, is the expected format disclosed?

Thanks
Gerald

Bill and Adobe Team,

there is a new TOP OLYMPUS camera on the market, the OM-D E-M1.

This excellent body combines the use of Four Thirds AND micro Four Thirds lenses. OLYMPUS succeeded in launching a body that is both, the official successor of OLYMPUS DSLR series (the E-System) AND the next generation of OLYMPUS mirrorless system cameras (m4/3).

I have provided some lens profiles for the Zuiko lenses (E-System) using the predecessor DSLR body E-5. You can download those or others via Adobe's Lens Profile Downloader.

Now my questions:
1.) E-System: Can we use the lens profiles made for the E-5 body also with the new body OM-D E-M1? It should work out because it is still the same 4/3 system, maybe with more pixels. The E-System lenses will survive with the E-M1. and there quality is top!
2.) Is Adobe Raw Converter (ACR) ready to interpret the RAW files of the E-M1?
3.) If we look at the m4/3 concept, as you say there is another strategy to integrate lens profiles into ACR that differs from the "classical" way to use the dialog in ACR's tab for lens profile corrections. Could you please provide links or further info in detail, how this alternative m4/3 approach works and what quality we can expect?

Thanks
Gerald

Just my vote for lens profiles in Lightroom for Olympus 4/3rds lenses. My personal preferences are for the 12-60, 50-200 and 70-300. It would be nice to include the EC20 teleconverter on the 50-200 as well.

Got tired of waiting for Nikon to provide a high end mirrorless body so am switching from a D300S & lenses to the new Olympus OM-D E-M1.

Thanks,
Bill
-just upgraded to Lightroom 5.2 on Windows