Support for Panasonic DMC-FZ1000
The DMC-FZ1000 bridge camera (LUMIX FZ1000) is extremely popular among photographers that appreciate its quality sensor and small footprint. Reviews have been enthusiastic from the beginning. It's great to take out into the wild, have it in your backback all the time and shoot great quality pictures within a few seconds. It's an ideal adventure and reporter's cam. It even does decent 4K video.
C1 opens its RAW files without problems, but lacking a lens profile for the fixed mounted Leica zoom, there are issues with developing wide angle shots. Chromatic aberation is corrected nicely, but structures get blurry around the edges where the JPEG processed internally by the cam delivers crispy sharpness. Undoubtedly, the Panasonic software engineers knew exactly what to correct and how.
C1 can not yet keep up with that. Maybe a lens profile for the cam would help. The cam has a fixed Leica zoom, so all cams are equal, which should greatly reduce complexity.
I should note that I'm currently demoing C1 and tested it with some 8000 images shot with the FZ1000. I tested competitors but like C1 best, by far. Unfortunately, not being able to develop RAW shots for the cam renders the software pretty much useless for me.
Since the FZ1000 is a very popular and highly rated bridge camera, I though I should request support for a lens profile here. There's certainly an audience for it.
C1 opens its RAW files without problems, but lacking a lens profile for the fixed mounted Leica zoom, there are issues with developing wide angle shots. Chromatic aberation is corrected nicely, but structures get blurry around the edges where the JPEG processed internally by the cam delivers crispy sharpness. Undoubtedly, the Panasonic software engineers knew exactly what to correct and how.
C1 can not yet keep up with that. Maybe a lens profile for the cam would help. The cam has a fixed Leica zoom, so all cams are equal, which should greatly reduce complexity.
I should note that I'm currently demoing C1 and tested it with some 8000 images shot with the FZ1000. I tested competitors but like C1 best, by far. Unfortunately, not being able to develop RAW shots for the cam renders the software pretty much useless for me.
Since the FZ1000 is a very popular and highly rated bridge camera, I though I should request support for a lens profile here. There's certainly an audience for it.
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[quote="ansbil" wrote:
The DMC-FZ1000 bridge camera is extremely popular among photographers
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There's certainly an audience for it.
You'll have to prove those statements before Phase One puts any additional effort into the camera - specifically: you, and lots of these others, will need to raise support cases...0 -
I see. Already opened a case, but as a demo user, my voice has probably limited weight.
Camera support would be easier, if a tool was provided to create a lens profile yourself. Or lens profiles were availabe as source code, maybe XML or similar, so interested users can help themselves. There's probably an automated process to create lens profiles anyway, so why not crowdsource this?
Now I'm stuck and will never become a C1 customer, unless there's support for the camera I use most.0 -
ansbil stuff is not that simple as it looks. PO need to profile cameras by there own to give a sustainable results to all customers, otherwise their quality will depend from crowd 😊, which is bad idea.
Unfortunately you had to wait while you DMC-FZ1000 will be supported, but it looks it is vendor related as usually Panasonic and Fuji cameras are dragging behind in support from third party RAW converters.0
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