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

I would definitely want to have my 14-42 E-PL3 lens supported by Adobe Raw to help me develop my pictures better.
The E-PL3 is a great camera in the underwater housing. As you can imagine underwater pictures need developing due to the different colour conditions underwater.

Gerald, there's a new version of the downloader here:

Win: http://t.co/TkZyVlTY
Mac: http://t.co/AYvjsVph

It should fix this problem.

Thanks Eric.

No need anymore, I've returned the Olympus. Back to worry-free shooting with my now 4-year old D700... 😉

I'm afraid not. I won't rule it out for the future, though.

Dear Eric,

Is there any reasonable chance for an upcoming version of Lightroom (4.2?) to start supporting Olympus camera calibration profiles? After returning from holidays in France where I was shooting with the E-M5 and my now old D700, I was struck by the huge difference in color reproduction achieved with the neutral calibration for the D700 shots in comparison to the standard Adobe set for the Olympus shots.

And actually, you can see how good the Lens, even without correction, is.

You can see the difference if you put the pictures one over the other and switch. This kind of correction is in other pictures (with more lines at the edges of the pictures) more valuable.

@ Gerald Hemetsberger

I used yesterday your profile for the 7-14mm.
It works good and it is mostly an Improvement in the geometry and the light distribution of the picture. But the aesthetic result is not always depend on it and sometimes it was better to give up the profile correction.
If you have previously undertaken a manual correction (and when it is well done) then you have to do without the profile correction. But this has more to do with the workflow. Because if I had previously the profile correction, my manual correction would be different.

Without Lens-Profile correction:


With Lens-Profile correction:

No offense taken, Steffen. I just wanted to explain that I think we're reasonably close to the goal, but I do understand that it would be nice to get all the way there. I certainly want to make the push to get us there.

Hi all,

I am still looking for a platform for a petition to collect numbers and names.The British platform provider has not answered yet.

@Delta-Kapa: Thx for your regards.

If you are well experienced with the E-System I would be happy for any feedback on my correction profiles. I was preparing the shooting sessions well in advance. The almost possible validation I had for myself was: just to control the correction effects onto the checkerboard charts. My real shooting is by far not sufficient to get an idea, how much the profiles prove themselves in practice. Here a brief comment of my experiences:

7-14mm: Adobe cut off the whole shooting series of the closest focusing distance, i.e., I was too close. It covers only two distances now.

150mm: I still realize chromatic aberration at very long distances (>20m) which I could not cover with the chart shooting.

50-200mm & 40-150mm: The vignette is heavily compensated, but nevertheless, you can always soften down the correction effects of the profiles with the software (LR, ACR).

This summer, I want to set-up other profiles for the 50mm macro and the 14-54mm. The profile for the macro will be very interesting especially when using the macro in its close-up capability.

Cheers
Gerald