Voigtlander 50mm Nokton f/1.0 custom lens profile in ACR/LR?

[CDodkin]

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Has anyone built a custom lens profile for the 50mm Nokton f/1.0 when processing the RAW files in ACR/LR?

It's not currently available as a supplied profile, so I'm wondering if anyone has built a custom profile for it this year?

Any help much appreciated 

Edited December 25, 2022 by CDodkin

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[goodbokeh]

Chris, have you had any progress on a ACR/LR Raw lens profile for the 50mm Nokton f/1.0? It's an issue that has been holding me back from buying one myself.

[J S H]

It's really not necessary. It's a great lens and I wouldn't let the lack of a profile keep you from purchasing one. The lens doesn't have any major abnormalities, so vignetting would be the main correction. The vignetting of the 50 F1 is actually quite pleasing to my eye, even wide open. I use the profile for the VM 50 1.2, as it has a little less vignetting and I rarely want to correct vignetting completely. I just set the distortion correction to zero if using a profile from a different lens. 

[goodbokeh]

Thanks for that JSH. So you prefer the VM 50 1.2 Adobe raw lens profile over the Leica 50 1.0 raw profile because the vignetting and distortion corrections are better modeled? I just read one report saying the distortion of the Nokton f/1.0 is minor pincushion. How does running no Adobe raw lens profile with the f/1.0 look to you compared to running the VM 50 1.2 profile?  

[J S H]

Well, the only way I would end up with the Leica Noctilux F1 profile would be to select it in camera, which I have occasionally done in the past, but normally prefer not to bake in the profile corrections, as some of them cannot be defeated in Lr. If you manually choose the Leica M profiles in Lr, you cannot control the vignetting correction, so I never use those after the fact. So yes, I am totally fine with using the VM 50 1.2 profile for vignetting correction. Even with that 50 1.2 profile, I would dial the vignetting correction down to 50% or so. 

Truthfully, unless you are shooting formal architectural images professionally (which I do often, but would never choose the VM 50 F1 for that application), the distortion on any of the fast 50's is so minimal that it's best to just defeat any corrections and retain the full image quality. It might be noticeable in a before and after, but I can't imagine it actually detracting from the final image. 

[goodbokeh]

Thanks much JSH.