lens profiles in Lightroom 6

[dan_yell]

HI

I have stand alone LR6 (& therefore no more updates) and it doesn't seem to recognise the lens I rented for my recent trip to Iceland - Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM - I'm really surprised, it seems to have so many profiles, but not this!

I've had a google but i can't find any sort of repositry of profiles that can be downloaded and then manually added to LR and not familar with making my own - has anyone else run into this and offer any advice?

thank you for your time!

 

[ancient_mariner]

HI

I have stand alone LR6 (& therefore no more updates) and it doesn't seem to recognise the lens I rented for my recent trip to Iceland - Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM - I'm really surprised, it seems to have so many profiles, but not this!

I've had a google but i can't find any sort of repositry of profiles that can be downloaded and then manually added to LR and not familar with making my own - has anyone else run into this and offer any advice?

thank you for your time!

See if ken Rockwell has reviewed it - he often provides profiles.

 

[droj]

If you really want a lens profile (I don't regard them as being the centre of the universe), you can go through a sequence of manual corrections on images from that lens that you feel show the worst abberations - chromatic, distortion, vignetting & what have you - and save them as a user preset.

If that sounds nonsense, google is your friend, but you still have to put in the leg work .

Don't get too obsessive about it, though - it might impact on your quality of life .

 

[dan_yell]

thanks @ancient_mariner - i'll take a look

@droj - don't worry, won't get too obsessive (rare for me lol) - it's just a nice to have at the click of a button - seeing as I assume whoever created the profile knows a bit more than me ;-) - was just surprised to not see it there

thank you both!

 

[Dave Canon]

It is fairly straightforward to produce a profile but tedious. You have take a lot of images with different settings but just dump them in a folder and the Adobe software sorts it out and produces the profile. I looked into this a few years ago when I had a lens for which I had no profile but I have the current versions of LR/PS and the profiles were later added so I did not need to bother.

Dave

 

[nandbytes]

You can actually download the profiles and add it manually.
Try this:

Adobe lens profile downloader? | Community

I found the Adobe lens profile downloader and downloaded it. However there is no support and I don't know how to install it or run it? I have searched the various forums and they keep sending me to the DNG converter. I don't want or need to use the converter if there is...

community.adobe.com

Have done it a few times myself.

 

[droj]

My feeling is that much of the time it doesn't matter, and some abberations can't be corrected anyway. Every lens has a character, and it shouldn't necessarily be desirable for all aspects of that character to be sanitised. Chromatic abberation is the one I tend to address if anything. Barrel distortion I might worry about only with a rectilinear subject. Vignetting is just part of daily life, indeed can be a welcome part of the overall composition, since it affects how the picture space relates to its boundary.

 

[woof woof]

If you really want a lens profile (I don't regard them as being the centre of the universe), you can go through a sequence of manual corrections on images from that lens that you feel show the worst abberations - chromatic, distortion, vignetting & what have you - and save them as a user preset.

If that sounds nonsense, google is your friend, but you still have to put in the leg work .

Don't get too obsessive about it, though - it might impact on your quality of life .

This is what I do and I add my usual starting settings, sharpness and noise reduction etc and all this gives a starting point.