Adobe New Utility "Lens Profile Creator"

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I look forward to reading comments from anyone who can predict how and if this utility may help our Leica M cause.

If colour fringing is a chromatic aberration can this help?

Adobe Labs - Downloads: Adobe Lens Profile Creator

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[Ecar]

Hard to say without actually trying it. I'll wait until the final release of LR3 is available.

I'd actually like to compare the results with those obtained by using DxO, which does a great job IMO on DSLR photos.

[jaapv]

I doubt it - fringing is not a lens problem as such (although the higher the resolution and microcontrast the lens has the more prone the image is to the phenomen), but a sensor-RAW conversion problem. Raw converters have a "defringing"option nowadays and that may well have been improved, but the lens correction feature will have more to do with vignetting and such - and unfortunately not in the colour channels, so cyan or red drift will not be corrected by this.

[zlatkob]

Adobe states: "Lens Profile Creator characterizes three common types of lens aberrations, namely the geometric distortion, the lateral chromatic aberration and the vignette." It looks like a great tool for photographers who need to address those lens aberrations and who have the patience to create custom profiles for their lenses. Profiles created by others will be downloadable too, though of course they won't be custom-made for the individual lenses you own. I think it will be a way to make any lens look technically better than it is. It may be very handy for architectural photographers, for example.

[01af]

In the Adobe lens profiles, the parameters describing vignetting are not RGB-channnel-specific. So no way to correct for colour-specific vignetting in the current version.

 

This means CornerFix won't become obsolete anytime soon.