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I posted and deleted this first in the wrong (X1) forum, so I try again:

 

Maybe a first step (or I missed something that already was there), but today I had the update on Camera Raw and, lo an behold, there are some Leica lensprofiles. I saw only three (all summarit-S). So, the massmarket is served ;), now the M market.

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Hank--those Summarits are the S2 lenses.

 

You're not the only one who made the error; we all jumped for joy when we first saw the Leica lenses listed! ;)

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It does seem strange that Adobe have started with S-series lens profiles. I wonder if they considered M-series lenses would not benefit from profiling? They have had plenty of time to profile selected M-lenses if deemed desirable.

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I always kept wondering why Leica chooses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to bundle with their digital cameras but refuses to exploit the software's full capabilities by not providing any lens profiles. Now, since the first three Leica S lens profiles for Camera Raw and Lightroom have appeared, there's hope that M lenses will follow soon.

 

Adobe Labs provides the Adobe Lens Profile Creator so you can always build your own lens profiles at home ... but it's an awful lot of tedious work if you want to get it right. Lens makers can feed data from their blueprints into the profiles so to them, making profiles is easier than it is to end users.

 

Until Leica eventually provides us with M lens profiles, I'll use the Lens Corrector plug-in to Photoshop from ALPA Switzerland. It includes profiles for all current Leica M lenses and also for a few discontinued ones. However unlike Adobe's lens profiles, it addresses geometry only, and only at infinity focus—no chromatic aberrations and no vignetting. Still very useful for architectural photography.

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