Aperture of course only reads the jpg files, where the corrections are ‘cooked in’ when the photo is taken. Neither Lightroom or Adobe Raw allow you to ignore these optcodes. To be honest, this isn’t often a great problem, but in some situations (landscape for instance) it really isn’t necessary to correct the distortion - but it may be good to keep the maximum resolution. The downside is a slight loss of resolution in the corners where the image is being ‘stretched’. The idea is that you don’t have to make complicated optical corrections to avoid barrel and pincushion distortion in lenses - you simply tell the image processor the focal length and aperture, and the software straightens things out. It was first used by Hasselblad with their 28mm lens, but is now pretty much universal. Of course, this is a good thing, it allows for smaller lenses and better images. Version 1.3 is pretty universally used and accepted now, but is not supported by Apple - either at operating system level, or within Aperture or iPhoto.Ģ.Lens Corrections are applied by default in jpg, Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW Incidentally, I think this is Apple’s fault - they SAY that they support DNG, but this is only the initial, pre 2012 version. This will probably change in the future, but having waited a year for support of the Monochrom, and even longer for non-support of the XVario I thought it would be good to find another way around the problem. Apple Aperture is also popular, but does not support the version of DNG file (1.3) which Leica use for both the Leica T and the Leica XVario. The Leica T comes with a free copy of Adobe Lightroom, which is fine if you like Adobe Lightroom, but there are two major DAM (digital asset management) software solutions available. Apple Aperture (and iPhoto) do not support the DNG files of the Leica T yet There are two issues for which this article provides a reasonably simple solution.ġ. Forgive me in advance - I’m not really a great technical expert, and this article is meant to be directed at others with a similar skill set :) With the Leica T starting to ship it seemed to be worth writing this short article about my own RAW (dng) workflow solution - which may or may not be helpful to you.
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