I want to add lens profiles to lightroom6. How should I proceed. MP-E 65, TS-E 24mm, TS-E 90mm?

[pwilliot]

In Lightroom 6 one can chose a lens profile correction.  Unfortunately, I have 3 lenses that do not have a pre-set lens correction.  These lenses are the Macro MP-E 65, the original version of the TS-E 24mm and the TS-E 90 mm.

Once one get these profiles, how to add these to the list?

[ebiggs1 · Accepted solution]

You can use the free Adobe Lens Profile Creator Tool to create lens profiles for less common lenses to work in Lightroom and Photoshop/ACR?

If Adobe doesn't have them already, this is the only way to get a profile.

[TCampbell]

Lens correction can't (easily) be applied to anything shot with a tilt-shift lens.

Unlike a normal lens where the optical axis of the lens is in the very center of the image, a tilt-shift lens projects a much larger image circle into the camera body... because when you either tilt it or shift it (or both) the image still needs to fill the sensor.  And since the lens adjustments are done manually, there's no information in the image meta-data as to how the lens was adjusted. 

Tilt-shift lenses are already applying their own perspective distortion corrections (that's the point of the "shift" adjustment).  So there would be no need of that.  The only correction that really could be applied is correction to CA -- but that would be very difficult to do on a tilt-shift lens.

[JGeigerPhoto]

But don't all lenses have some degree chromatic aberration and rectilinear distortion that can be measured and corrected?  I understand about the optical center and the image circle; would applying the correction for when the lens is on axis be do different when the lens is tilted or shifted? 

[Hazel_T]

Hi JGeigerPhoto,

Correcting lens aberration and distortion can be more complicated with tilt shift lenses. Editing software usually applies lens profiles to images that correct the normal distortions and aberrations that model can have. Standard lenses will have more predictable aberration and distortion, so built in lens profiles can typically handle correcting for those lenses.

With a tilt shift lens that would be based on the lens with not tilt or shift applied. When the lens is tilted and shifted that information is not saved in the EXIF data of the photo, so software will not automatically be able to correct everything on those lenses. 

Due to that some manual corrections may be needed. The corrections to use would need to be handled in your editing software on a case by case basis since the amount of tilt and shift applied can vary from shot to shot. 

[JGeigerPhoto]

I guess there would be a way to photograph a grid pattern with subject, lens and image sensor to al be c-planer or an orthoscopic view, if you will. That image would be one measurement and then take subsequent images with varying degrees of tilt and shift. It would require curvilinear distortion to be corrected using some sort of floating point to apply. The only reason I am interested in all of this (what much seem like excessive nonsense to most) is that I use the Canon TS-45 and TS-90 a lot for my work, which is mostly industrial product photography. 

[ebiggs1 · Accepted solution]

You can use the free Adobe Lens Profile Creator Tool to create lens profiles for less common lenses to work in Lightroom and Photoshop/ACR?

If Adobe doesn't have them already, this is the only way to get a profile.

[pwilliot]

Thanks,

Pierre

[TCampbell · Accepted solution]

Adobe's latest update added a lens profile for the Canon MP-E 65mm.

[pwilliot]

Great. Thanks.

[ebiggs1]

Everyone knows hits is a nearly 10 year old thread? A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then.