Support for MicroFourThirds Lens Corrections

[EricNepean]

Hi, I’m new here.

I have Affinity Photo 1, but my primary Phototool is CaptureOne. I’m considering moving from CaptureOne to Affinity Photo 2.

I have a big collection of MicroFourThirds lenses and bodies, and big collection of images (mostly as raw files) from this equipment.

Every Panasonic and Olympus lens has correction parameters which are included in the RAW file taken from that lens.

I note that while the OM-1 and Panasonic MFT cameras (eg G9, GX8, GM5) are listed on the Affinity support for RAW files, they are not listed on the Affinity support for lens corrections.

Does this mean the lens corrections in the RAW files from those bodies would not be applied? Or just that Affinity has not developed a custom correction for that lens?

[David in Яuislip]

Photo won't read correction data from the raw file, it will attempt to identify the lens using the exif metadata then apply correction based on the lensfun database
https://github.com/lensfun/lensfun/tree/master/data/db

If no correction is applied you can try to manually select the lens or if it's not listed you can check lensfun and copy it from there if it exists

Hope that helps

[EricNepean]

Hi David, very useful answer to help understand how this tool works.

I see that the lensfun database is open source, and a link there indicates that over 40 Panasonic Lumix and Panasonic Leica lenses are supported.
 

This is great because I have used many of those lenses for a long time, and continue to use them.

I am still uncertain because the Affinity Photo supported lenses page does not any Panasonic lenses.

So I wonder if Affinity Photo in reality supports every lens in the Lensfun database.

 

 

[EricNepean]

 I now see that Panasonic MicroFourThirds lenses are listed as supported by Affinity Photo. They are not listed with the “Panasonic” name, they are listed under “Leica” and “Lumix” 

[David in Яuislip]

Your linked list might be worth comparing with this one
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/167741-list-of-supported-raw-formats-cameras-for-lens-correction-list-in-affinity-20x/
which looks like the latest scope for APhoto, if you go to the bottom of the post you'll see 'Full List of Lenses'
You may like to use the Favourites tab to group your lenses rather than poncing around with the list that appears

1 Click down arrow
2 Find lenses and click on their hearts
3 Select Favourites tab

It'd be interesting to read your appraisal of Capture One vs APhoto, if you have decent glass and are shooting raw surely the raw converter is important and Capture One is highly regarded

ps, pls find attached comparison of wilson.bronger 2023-02-16 vs Affinity list linked above, I've only done Olympus

OlympusLensLists.zip