Leica M10 Lightroom Lens Profiles

[Jared]

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I noticed something strange today when working on some images in Lightroom with my new M10... Specifically, I noticed that turning on the "Enable Profile Corrections" checkbox in the lens correction section did nothing at all on my M10 images--no distortion correction or vignetting correction.  

 

I am used to the SL where the distortion correction is applied automatically--whether you like or not.  In the case of the SL, if you apply the lens correction you are essentially double correcting.  So you would never want to check the box when shooting the SL with M lenses (at least as long as they are six bit coded).  Still, you can at least see the image shift when you do check the box.

 

If I remember properly from my M240 before I sold it, no distortion correction is applied by Lightroom UNLESS you check the box.  Then it looks at what lens the image was tagged with and applies the profile built into Lightroom.  I was expecting the same behavior with M10 files.  For some pictures I might choose to apply the correction, and for others I might not.  However, with M10 files I can't see any change at all when I check the box.  

 

There is one other difference I noticed and maybe that explains what's going on... In the Camera Calibration tab in Lightroom under the Profile I see "M10" on all the images from the new camera as opposed to the choice of "Adobe Standard" or "Embedded" that I'm used to.  Normally this just covers color calibration, but I'm wondering whether somehow Lightroom is automatically applying the lens profiles regardless of the check box on "Enable Profile Corrections" in the lens profile section.  

 

Has anyone else noticed this?  I'm using version CC2015.7/6.7 of Lightroom and Camera Raw 9.7.  I thought that there was a newer release to Lightroom (CC2015.8?), but my CreativeCloud app says it is up to date.  Hmm.

 

- Jared

[Overgaard]

Yes, for the M10 the lens profile is automatically applied.

 

If you photograph a few photos as DNG+JPOG, you will be able to see the difference between the DNG (profile applied) and the JPG (no profile applied as it's "made in camera").

 

To see the side by side, go in to Lightroom > Preferences > Treat JPEG files next to DNG files. 

[Jared]

It wasn't a DNG vs. JPG issue.  Turns out my copy of Lightroom had somehow gotten corrupted, so the profile application simply wasn't working and Adobe Updater seemed convinced I was on the current version even though I was about four versions down-rev.  Uninstalled and Reinstalled Lightroom and now it is working as expected.  Profile applied by default on import, but I see a difference when I turn it off and on.  Thanks for the idea, though, and I enjoyed your review of the M10.

 

- Jared