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

Dear Steffen, thank you for your comprehensive explanation of this request!

I shoot the Olympus E-30, with the ZUIKO Digital 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD, ZUIKO Digital ED 50-200mm F2.8-3.5 SWD and the ZUIKO Digital ED 50mm F2.0 Macro. I don't have experience with Nikon or Canon, but I do agree that given all of the options available for those two cameras it just makes sense that having the same types of choices for lens corrections and camera settings in Lightroom would provide a similiar improvement during processing.

Again, thank you, I do hope that Adobe will see fit to add these options.

Dear Eric,

If you're interested I could provide example images (with Adobe's automatic setting and after manual control) - the difference in terms of distortion is I wouldn't say dramatic but very visible.

Dear Eric,

Many thanks for replying!

I'd loved to agree wholeheartedly but in my experience (and professionals in the community) the automatic lens correction for Olympus lenses (for instance, the excellent 12mm f/2.0 for MFT cameras) does not fully remove distortion (I have to manually set this to +7 in the lens correction panel). Clearly, the quality of the result I get for my new Olympus lens/camera is substantially inferior to Lightroom's excellent treatment of my Nikon D700 images.

What is also missing (sorry for being pedantic) is the option to apply camera settings. For my Nikon, Lightroom gives me several option, among which I like the neutral setting in the camera calibration panel most. The generic Adobe camera setting is no match to the camera settings - I would for instance never use the generic camera calibration setting for my D700 images, colors and overall impression is almost ugly by comparison to the very smooth neutral setting.

I hope that clarifies some of the issues photographic nerds have with the current Adobe solution.

My best wishes.

To clarify ...

... what I meant is that lens corrections are automatically applied for all recent Olympus models (e.g., Micro Four-Thirds) and lenses. There are no separate external profiles, nor is any action needed on the part of the user.

Hi Eric,

Thanks a bunch, that would be fantastic! I've just purchased an Olympus OM-D E-M5 with a nice Zuiko 12mm f/2 attached to it and was initially disappointed to find neither lens correction profiles nor camera calibration options for the Olympus (coming from and staying with a Nikon D700 kit).

Can't wait for 4.1 release version to arrive!

We already have.

Adobe - Please add camera profiles and lens correction for Olympus E-M5 to Lightroom 4.x.

Lightroom handles Olympus raw files, no problem, I work in LR 4 and convert the ORF files to DNG during import.
My question is support for Olympus cameras and lenses in the Develop Module, specifically the Lens Corrections Panel and the Camera Calibration Panel. There are no Olympus options in either place. I recognize that Olympus is a smaller portion of the market, but it would be great to at least have the E-30 and E-5 options plus the High Grade and Super High Grade Zuiko lenses options available.

Hi Jeffrey,
thank you. That is why I often use DXO.
In my opinion there must be included the lenses of the upcoming m4/3-System also.

regards
Thomas N

Hi Jeffrey!

Did the people, who maintain the downloader, give you any feedback about the OLYMPUS pop-up? The most practical thing would be just to change the name in the drop-down list to "OLYMPUS IM", as what it is de facto.

I was intensively working through Adobe's "Calibration Chart Shooting Guide". The guide is simple, well understood, but nevertheless very detailed. Really, I have to wow your work, i.e., the lens profile creator itself as a solution, but also the guides.

There is only one question left for myself: For the shootings you promote minimum focus distance, 2xminimum focus distance, and 5xminimum focus distance. You offer charts A0, A1, A2, A3, and A4. In the case of some lenses, for example macro lenses, both recommendations do not match together. Either you need smaller charts A5 to A10 or you have to give up the minimum distance approach.
What do you recommend?
I suggest that you add this recommendation to the chart shooting guide.

Thank you for your time and attention.
Gerald