Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] Adobe support for R lenses
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:24:15 -0500

For me a guy whose doing a lot of nikon work its frustrating that they don't
have on the Adobe list my compact 45 2.8 P for pancake and 28 1.4 as those
are optics I use often so I have to find something similar but its a
compromise.
So I'm going to have to figure out this thing where you create your own lens
profile. And I do think some of the profiles are

Now I'm shooting mainly with my lens I've re acquired from my stash in
Portland in the past  months my 50 dollar nikon 28.0-80.0 mm f/3.3-5.6 a
long discontinued silver kit lens which works " ridiculously well". Is
feather weight and compact. Its like  a zoom version of the other Nikon
cheap magic lens the 50mm 1.8.
Normally I believe in a world where you get what you pay for. But once in a
blue moon threes an exception to the rule.
It has a compound ASPH element made by combining an ASPH acyclic over an
element of glass with a bit of superglue.
They made a million of them but darned if I can find them anywhere except
for the website which cant be mentioned:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/28-80mm-g.htm
Turns my D700 into much less of a lead weight monster.

There is one on eBay for 80 bucks.
I think people either never get rid of them or just throw them in the
garbage with the rest of their furniture when they sell their house and move
to a condo.




Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:33:45 +1000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Adobe support for R lenses
> 
> Frank there are 69 Leica lens profiles, that is more than there are for
> Canon or Nikon, I think.
> Why not start with one of the current profiles and edit to what you want
> with samples from the lenses you have? Every profile is simply a starting
> point anyway.
> As others mentioned I hardly find these necessary anyway and you may well
> not want to 'correct' the native characteristics of these lenses beyond
> what is optionally happening in firmware anyway.
> All of these Leica lenses are in tiny quantities compared to Canon and
> Nikon. Olympus stuff is not covered at all and it is interesting that the
> 4/3 designs are not addressed but that is a separate discussion.
> 
> However, perhaps take your concern to the Adobe Forums?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 November 2012 17:01, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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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