The environment variable PTLENSPROFILE should point to the profile.txt file. Serif/Affinity Photo could be clearer, provide some kind of single point of access to this topic (e.g. Radial distortion coefficients can be read from a PTLens database (only. The PT lens service is interesting, as you can get a lens profile of your lens (if not part of the data base), should you provide a series of pictures, as per instructions of PTlens maker. This new list might be a license of the commercial PTlens list, which is "old" Lensfun + recent updates. The reference to Lensfun is misleading, as the Lensfun database is not updated for 2 years. I think that Serif should make clear where this new list comes from. Some lenses widely sold like Sigma 24-70 zoom of the Art series are missing, etc. It is better than the Lensfun one as per Github. By way of illustration, here are the PTLens (left) and my custom profile. Even a way to copy and past would be great.Īs part, of the 1.9.1 Affinity Photo announcement, there is an updated list of camera and lenses. They provide a fine tool to create your own lens profiles, for example when. Sure you can create profiles for your raw develops, but I'm not creating a profile every time I import photos. It could be great with a decent lens data base and the ability to bulk process. I hope someones able to comment on whether this is something they are working on for a future release, cause the develop persona needs a lot of work.
What is a ptlens profile upgrade#
I also work as a musician/audio professional and I'd have to shell out THOUSANDS to upgrade my software to work with that) There is also a lens profile available in the Lensfun database, which can be accessed through several different RAW converters (ON1, Rawtherapee, Darktable, Rawstudio and several others). and expecting that professional users upgrade to a new OS built on an entirely new architecture is wild. However, this does not integrate to DXO Photolab.
What is a ptlens profile update#
At least they finally got their ducks sorted for some of the latest cameras that came out (Apple dropped the ball hard and didn't push their raw camera update to anyone who's not using MacOS 11. It doesn't handle multiple photos, or lens profiles well at all. Affinity's develop persona really does have quite a bit of ground to make up in order to compete with Adobe in a meaningful way. I have to agree that its pretty disappointing that a professional paid product is relying on an out of date free GitHub repository as their main lens correction database.