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

Dear Eric,

Point taken. I hope my requests do not come across as rants of an ungrateful old chap... I realise that LR already provides reasonable support given the situation (ie, that Olympus would not collaborate on this). It's just that the level of comfort provided for other cameras (Nikon in my case) has entirely spoilt my expectations... ;-)

Best wishes, have a nice summer,

Steffen

Thank you Gerald,
for your work.
I just downloadet some Lens Profiles and I sow your work.
Herzlichen Dank aus Berlin!

In truth, the level of distortion correction provided via the metadata in the Micro Four-Thirds system is much closer to the level of distortion correction provided by our Canon and Nikon lens profiles, compared to the uncorrected image. It is true the MFT correction is conservative, but in most cases I would say it is about 90% of the full possible correction.

Dear Eric,

Please do not provoke over-optimistic expectations... the quality of the distortion correction is not even close to the level Adobe offers for Canon or Nikon glass. You simply take some rudimentary information that are embedded in the ORF files and apply them. This may reduce some distortion but people will still have to use manual fine-tuning to reach good results. Everyone here in this discussion understands that this is not Adobe's (definitely not your personal) fault (since Olympus doesn't provide the relevant lens data to Adobe).

BTW: I've got LR 4.1 to correct my Olympus M.12mm f/2.0 (distortion +7 in the lens correction panel) and saved this as preset that it's applied to new shots during import. However, for some reason that I don't understand the "constrain crop" tick box option never gets saved in the preset and therefore, would need to be applied after import. Anything that I got wrong here?

We already support distortion correction for all Micro Four-Thirds lenses when used with all Olympus Micro Four-Thirds bodies. Lateral chromatic aberration removal is also already supported in Camera Raw 7 and Lightroom 4, by means of the "Remove Chromatic Aberration" checkbox. No external lens profiles needed.

Can you please support OMD EM-5 and all the micro 4/3 lenses that go with it?

More and more people are using this system and would love to use LR 4.... think of all the $$$ you can make!

Its not as if there are that many lenses to create profiles for anyway....

interested User are also on http://www.oly-forum.com .
look at this thread:
http://www.oly-forum.com/forum/digita...

Stef@n

Dear all,

I agree it would be best to set up an independent petition. Unfortunately, my attempts to have any meaningful interaction with Olympus Germany have largely failed, even though both sides interact in their native tongues- there seem to be a wall of misunderstanding. Olympus also kept pointing the finger at Adobe and Apple (for an unrelated software issue), the concept that this is something Olympus could take in their own hands must have appeared particularly strange...

Thanks Eric for proving that Adobe sees user feedback as a motivation!

Gerald, this would be something I suggest you undertake separately from Adobe. We (Adobe) already have a good relationship with the vendors and regularly let them know that this is something that users are requesting. I think it's good to have something different here, namely, that the users communicate directly with the vendors to let them know -- i.e., from a different angle, and not via Adobe.

Hi Gerald, thanks so much for taking the lead on trying to communicate with Olympus Tokyo. And, I agree with your list, those are all of my concerns also.

As far as setting up a petition, I don't know about the Adobe platform, but these groups have potential:

http://www.four-thirds.org/en/index.html
http://fourthirds-user.com/
http://www.fourthirdsphoto.com/

Hope these are useful.
Francie