Lightroom integration with DXO Pro

[vanhulsenbeek]

In my Canon period I was - and still am - an avid user of DXO http://www.dxo.com DXO However, not working with DNG, DXO had little to offer to Leica M8 users

Until the now recently engineered integration between Lightroom 1.1 ( and 1.0) with DXP Pro: DxO Optics Pro - New in Version 4.5

I do not wish to overburden everybody with yet another program, but I must say the, using scenario 2 and using the DXP Filmpack Generic Velvia 50 preset, I do at last see back those wonderful greens I remember from my Velvia times.

Which Capture One LE does not seem to have in stock for me.

Interesting to try out, especially when you are not keen on using the UV/IR filter, for whatever reason.

[farnz]

Sander,

Thanks very much for the links and the info but am I missing something here? I've never used DxO because it doesn't support Leica lenses but I'd understood that its purpose was to correct lens anomalies such as vignetting and CA by customising for each lens that it supports. Won't that be a problem when using the Lightroom plugin to correct images that are made with Leica lenses?

Or are there other features that you're referring to?

Pete.

[vanhulsenbeek]

Originally Posted by farnz

DXO: I'd understood that its purpose was to correct lens anomalies such as vignetting and CA by customising for each lens that it supports. Won't that be a problem when using the Lightroom plugin to correct images that are made with Leica lenses?

Hi Pete!

Yes, those are some important features of DXO, and not available for Leica lenses. A shame IMHO.

But many other features - color correction, contrast correction, filmpack-corrections, highlight correction etc. - are still available. For any other than RAW files, such as TIFand JPG. But without the lens/camera corrections, to be exact.

Up to now, however, to get a TIF one had to go through C1LE, which I find slow and its corrections I do not like. Wit the recent integration with Lightroom, Lightroom first makes a TIF without Lightroom corrections, which is then automatically ported to DXO and fully available in DXO.

The results make me happy: I am going to Indonesia (the country of my childhood) in 10 days, and I was a liitle apprehensive about the renditions of greens in Leica M8 DNG's. With this Lightroom/DXO integration I am sure I will be able to revisit, when back home, those tropical greens I like to remember!

Why not just create multiple camera calibration profiles in Lightroom for each lens? As for greens, it's very simple to adjust greens anywhere from muddy yellow to bright, minty green with the camera calibration sliders.

[vanhulsenbeek]

Originally Posted by sirvine

Why not just create multiple camera calibration profiles in Lightroom for each lens? As for greens, it's very simple to adjust greens anywhere from muddy yellow to bright, minty green with the camera calibration sliders.

That may very well work for one or two pictures, but for working in batches I trust DXO, up to now.

How would you administer different profiles to pictures in a batch and then process the batch in Lightroom? DXO can do this.

[andybarton]

Originally Posted by sirvine

Why not just create multiple camera calibration profiles in Lightroom for each lens? As for greens, it's very simple to adjust greens anywhere from muddy yellow to bright, minty green with the camera calibration sliders.

Lightroom doesn't allow profiles in the Mac version, from what I have seen.

It's simple...make different presets, each with different camera calibration settings. Then when you import, apply the appropriate preset to the imported batch.

The only (minor) difficulty would be where you are importing a batch shot with different lenses, in which case you will need to isolate the shots based on which lens is used and apply the appropriate preset to those.

I think the confusion is semantic-- people tend to associate "profile" with ICC profile. In this case, I'm using "profile" in the colloquial sense to refer to the camera calibration settings.

The best thing to do is get familiar with that little box at the bottom of the develop settings: camera calibration---it's very powerful in this context.

[farnz]

Sander,

Thanks for clearing that up. I have a PS plugin from FM called Velvia Vision that is pretty good at rendering the Velvia look that I also miss so much. Not sure I'd go for DxO for just the rest of the features though.

Pete.

[WPalank]

Originally Posted by farnz

I have a PS plugin from FM called Velvia Vision that is pretty good at rendering the Velvia look that I also miss so much.
Pete.

Pete,
If Velvia is what you are after in Lightroom, then go to this site:
http://lightroom-extra.com/
About the middle of the page you will see a preset link for "Colour effects". There are 2 velvia presets in there.
Cheers,

[farnz]

William,

Many thanks for the link there's a lot of very interesting Lightroom presets on this site.

(For others who want to find these presets: you need to click the "Inside Lightroom" link in the second paragraph down on the left hand side of the Home page. The site uses white text on a black page and the links are white too but not underlined so it is easy to miss them.)

Pete.