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If you use vintage lenses, you need to make custom lens profiles

Jul 27, 2023 by Vlad Moldovean 2 Comments
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I’ll start this article by saying I love shooting vintage glass for the character it can imprint on my images. I love the swirly bokeh, the bloom, and the flares and color rendition, but I don’t always want the lens distortion, the chromatic aberration, or the vignette that these lenses naturally have.

Recently I picked up a Nikon 20mm AFD lens from the local second-hand market, which, to be honest, is not even that vintage, as production started in 1989. But being a wide-angle lens, it has quite a significant barrel distortion and heavy vignetting. I do suspect that the one I got might be a bit damaged as it blooms more than any of the really vintage lenses in my collection, so maybe it has been tinkered with.

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Adobe finally adds Irix lens profile support the Adobe CC suite

Jul 27, 2018 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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I’ve been a big fan of Irix lenses since I first had the chance to check out their then-new Irix 15mm f/2.4 in person at The Photography Show in 2016. Later in the year, they let me have a bit of a play with the Irix 11mm f/4 at Photokina later in the year. They’re both very impressive lenses.

The only potential issue with them, though, is that until recently, if you wanted lens profiles for these lenses in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom, you needed to download them yourself and install them manually. Now, though, Adobe have officially added lens profiles to support these lenses to CC.

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