For NON LEICA lglass (Voigtlander, Zeiss, classic LTM etc),
has anyone compared their specific Lightroom profiles
to the nearest Leica lens in the M9 or M240 profiles?
Is one or the other consistently better?
I'm thinking the specific Lightroom profile would generally be preferable, but is that true in practice?
Thanks for all who share their views,
Stephen
has anyone compared their specific Lightroom profiles
to the nearest Leica lens in the M9 or M240 profiles?
Is one or the other consistently better?
I'm thinking the specific Lightroom profile would generally be preferable, but is that true in practice?
Thanks for all who share their views,
Stephen
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
For illumination and color shift, Adobe's Flat Field plug-in wins, since you can make multiple profiles for aperture and shooting distance (and this does affect red shift), for any lens. That's actually the best for the ZM 21/4,5, which has no distortion to speak of.
On the preset Leica-mount profiles, they have nothing for Zeiss M, M-Rokkor, or M-Hexanon (and in fact don't even cover many Leica lenses), so the quickest approach for distortion is to turn on the grid and then cycle through the choices and watch which ones get a straight line parallel to the horizontal gridlines. What matches your lens is often not the profile you would expect to work. Use flat field before you do this part.
Given that distortion is the main bugbear with lenses, and it's an issue on a small number of shots anyway, I generally just use a Leica preset where possible. The Adobe lens profiler, unless you have a lens with something weird like moustache distortion, is a lot of effort for little return.
Dante
On the preset Leica-mount profiles, they have nothing for Zeiss M, M-Rokkor, or M-Hexanon (and in fact don't even cover many Leica lenses), so the quickest approach for distortion is to turn on the grid and then cycle through the choices and watch which ones get a straight line parallel to the horizontal gridlines. What matches your lens is often not the profile you would expect to work. Use flat field before you do this part.
Given that distortion is the main bugbear with lenses, and it's an issue on a small number of shots anyway, I generally just use a Leica preset where possible. The Adobe lens profiler, unless you have a lens with something weird like moustache distortion, is a lot of effort for little return.
Dante