Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To the point, which of the profiled 24 R lenses is not discontinued? A really stupid marketing decision..... Profile R lenses before some/all of the non-current M lenses.... Look Leica, a few interns for the summer and it is all done..... I do not get it..... Support those of us that own Leica stuff and wish to continue owning Leica stuff. I plugged Tina's MM photo of the barn into LR4 and turned on the Lens Profile tab... it was a coded as a 90 AA Summicron.... if you go back and forth between with and without corrections, you will see that there is manipulation of the center of the image.. almost like the center is being zoomed while the periphery is kept pretty much stable. Whatever the opposite of barrel distortion is.... Pretty fascinating to see corrections like these.... If you try the Basement image, using the 21 Super Elmar 3.4 profile, the center remains the same and the periphery gets zoomed. Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net 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. > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information