Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Adobe support for R lenses
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:05:32 +0000
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Those are both discontinued lenses.... Cannot say that I have ever felt the 
need to go to the lens profiles for Leica lenses ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----

21 Elmarit ASPH?
24 ditto

I could go on....  But I own those 2.....

The point being there are significantly less profiles for M lenses that sold 
in significantly higher volumes, are still current, etc.  Whereas the effort 
( resource, work, whatever) is being put into making profiles for lenses 
that are now otherwise unsupported, for a plan to fit all M Type 240 cameras 
with R lenses, which is not available and probably will not be for 6 months.

I find that a waste.   A ridiculous waste.  

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


Cheer up Frank are you having a glass half empty day? ;-) In fact there are
22 lens profiles in there for Leica M lenses. That includes all of the 
exotics, even the new APO 50 Summicron ASPH although I don't know how you 
would correct that one!
The single current lens not included is the Tri Elmar 16-18-21 and Leica 
Camera themselves do not correct that one for individual focal lengths in 
firmware.
Of course the R lenses are likely to be used on the new M typ 240 when it 
arrives too.
Note that you can apply any lens profile to any shot so for example the 
profiles for the R lenses can be used by people who have adapted them for 
dSLRs as well.

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 10 November 2012 16:13, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:

> I would assume Leica did the profiles......
>
> Leica supports lenses from a camera lens series discontinued 10 (?) 
> years ago, but has no support for all the current M lenses ......
>
> Brilliant.
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> The new Release Candidate of Lightroom 4.3 (and ACR 7.3 I guess) adds 
> lens profile support for 26 new lenses and 24 of them are Leica R.
> This is very encouraging for when the M typ 240 gets into production 
> and photographers' hands.
>
>


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