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Inspiring
July 20, 2012
Question

Lens Correction won't list my camera and lens

  • July 20, 2012
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Why won't the Lens Correction filter recognize my camera and lens, which is shown in the metadata below the correction window?  I had been using the venerable Canon 5D Mk II and now the Mk III.  For images taken with the III it doesn't even list Canon in the Camera dropdown -- too new?  Even with the II, I had to choose the camera manually and then choose the lens from a very tedious list, and had no indication if it was using the focal length in the case of a zoom, or the aperture.

I do strongly prefer to do this correction in Camera Raw or Lightroom, and realize it needs to be done on an uncropped image to be accurate.  I'm probably missing something, but why even present it as an auto correction if it can't use the metadata?  Why not just limit it to the manual correction?

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    janelle_f
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    July 20, 2012

    Here is the list for the cameras that Camera Raw supports in Lightroom or as a plug-in:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/extend.html

    and

    http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

    what version of photoshop/camera raw are you in?

    more about the functional qualities of camera raw:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/creativesuite/cs/using/WSBD0EDB3C-9472-48d2-A3B1-7C06FABF0A2B.html

    -janelle

    Inspiring
    July 20, 2012

    The question wasn't about Camera Raw.  It was about the Lens Correction filter in Photoshop.

    I'm using PS CS6, with the latest CRaw, everything up to date.  (Mac OS 10.6.8). 

    I'm just curious why the Lens Correction Filter in PS won't read the metadata for the camera and lens that is displayed to the lower left of the correction screen, and enter it in the appropriate fields, as ACR and LR do.

    The Canon 5D Mark II and the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 have been supported for years in Camera Raw. 

    janelle_f
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    July 20, 2012

    sorry Diane, my mistake i obviously read the question wrong! please forgive me . after bringing that to my attention, i have noticed that it wont operate in the same way as the other components...

    -janelle