LR6 - Old Lens Profiles

[visoflex]

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One of the problems of being an old dinosaur is that technology rolls on and passes me by.  To this end, although my only concession to modern technology is an M9-P, I'm still using my old 35/50/90 pre- ASPH Summicron lenses from my M6 days.  Unfortunately, LR6 does not have these in its lens pre-sets.

 

Is anyone else in this position?  What is your work-around or are you just using the ASPH equivalent profiles?

 

Many thanks

 

 

[tobey bilek]

I would make up my own profiles and save them as a preset.    

 

Set vignetting two stops down from full open otherwise it will correct for mechanical vignetting at all stops therefore overcorrecting at smaller stops.

 

distortion may vary depending on distance.   Therefore find a suitable subject(s) and make a manual correction.  

 

Save as preset with only these two corrections made.

 

I recommend using a Whi Bal Card to set white balance.     You can set each of the 4 profiles available to Sun,  cloudy, tungsten, and flash depending on your requirements. 

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[jrp]

It would be good if Leica generated some of these old lens profiles. (Similarly for Zeiss, Voigtlander, etc.) After all, they offer Lightroom with the cameras.  Rolling your own is possible, but not much fun.