Lightroom 3 Lens Correction Questions

Ok, so I've been playing with Lightroom 3 now, since its been released, and I'm loving it.
I am still a Aperture 3 fan, but LR3 is nice.

Questions about the Lens Correction functions...when I enable profile corrections, it lists the make, model, and profile...

All but the "profile" are right, it has a Canon 1D Mark III in there with no other options, any idea how I can get Canon 5D Mark II in there? Download a profile? Create one? Import?

Thanks,
Chris

The Mk3 one should work - it doesn't matter which camera was used to create the profile, as long as the sensor was the same size or bigger.

Victoria, the 1D3 sensor is a 1.3x sensor, whereas the 5D2 is full frame. Will the profile still "behave"?

Yeah, I didn't think the 1D3MKII and 5DMKII had the same sensor size...or bigger.

Ah, my apologies, you're quite right. I'd forgotten the 1d Mk3 was a cropped sensor. Which lens - and raw or JPEG file?

Victoria Bampton wrote in post #10357201
Ah, my apologies, you're quite right. I'd forgotten the 1d Mk3 was a cropped sensor. Which lens - and raw or JPEG file?

I am looking for the 5DMKII with a 24-70L, 70-200L 2.8 non IS, and the 35L.
I use RAW, sRAW1, to be specific.

I'm still trying to learn what these things are for and how they are used, I watched some tutorials from the Adobe Labs on them, and get the idea. But I figured I might be getting wrong profiles since it was set to 1DMKIII?

All of those lenses should be available in the pop-up menus. Any of the ones marked 'Adobe' are suitable for any camera.

Ok, I just thought someone would have created a profile for the 5D MK II by now?

The Adobe ones are likely to be more accurate than most user profiles, at least until everyone gets the hang of it.

Victoria Bampton wrote in post #10358583
The Adobe ones are likely to be more accurate than most user profiles, at least until everyone gets the hang of it.

Weird, I just opened LR3 back up since last night and the only option I have now under Lens Correction - Profile section is Adobe(Lens Name). No Canon 1D Mark III anymore? Odd.

Did I change something somewhere else to make this appear? I did some Adobe updates, but I don't know if LR3 was one of them?

While I have your attention here Victoria, I wanted to ask you a question about file organizations.

Right now I have a lot of photos on my NAS drive, all organized just by a named folder, ex: "Jacks First Birthday", "Christmas 2009", "Easter 2010", "Jacks Play Date", etc...

I like the way LR3 will import/add files by year and then date, 2010 > 6-5-2010 > "images" etc...and then you add keywords and metadata to be able to find them in LR3.

Is there a way I can "redo" my current images that are in the named folders and get them into the format above that is sort of the default LR3 format?

Would I just select all the named folders to import into a blank catalog, and let them add them one folder at a time, with this default format? Then remove the named folders after all are converted?

Maybe the first time around you clicked by mistake on the 17-40 instead of the 24-70. That has a profile labelled 1DIII.

tzalman wrote in post #10359496
Maybe the first time around you clicked by mistake on the 17-40 instead of the 24-70. That has a profile labelled 1DIII.

No, it used the EXIF data from the photo I was on and automatically selected stuff in there for me, I had never touched anything, but then I noticed that all the boxes looked right except the "profile" drop down which had the 1DMarkIII in there, but not anymore...oh well. She said the Adobe one is better, and now it says Adobe("Lens Name"), seems its set ok to me?

ChrisMc73 wrote in post #10359490
Would I just select all the named folders to import into a blank catalog, and let them add them one folder at a time, with this default format? Then remove the named folders after all are converted?

If you wrote the data to xmp, and then imported the photos into a new catalog, it would take any settings that are stored in xmp. That excludes flags, collections, virtual copies, and Develop history (but keeps the current settings) primarily. So in that scenario, with those limitations, yes that would work.

Other than that, you can drag/drop folders into your choice of folder structure in LR's folders panel. Depends how many photos you've got.