On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Pascal de Bruijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Russell Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just fiddling with lens correction on an image taken with my
>> Pentax K5II and a Samyang 14mm/2.8 lens.
>>
>> In the lens correction module it comes up with "Pentax K-5 II" for the
>> camera, and "A Series Lens" for the lens, and applies no noticeable
>> distortion corrections.
>>
>> If I change the camera to another Pentax APS-C camera (or a Generic
>> 1.5x camera), suddenly it applies a pretty good pincushion correction.
>>
>> How can this be, when darktable has apparently not identified my lens?
>>
>> This lens does not communicate electronically with the camera. I told
>> the camera the focal length was 15mm (as it has no 14mm option) and this
>> is reflected in the exif data. Has darktable somehow just made a
>> reasonable guess at how much pincushion a 15mm lens on APS-C will have
>> ??
>>
>> I will make the effort to calibrate the lens and submit it to LensFun
>> but I am just curious what's going on here and where darktable is
>> getting its correction parameters from in this instance. I am using
>> darktable 1.1+1175~g2434bf0.
>>
>> Secondly it won't let me choose any other lens unless I select a camera
>> other than the automatic "Pentax K-5 II".
>
> The base problem you're likely having is the missing camera definition
> for the K-5 II... I've attached an file you can locally place in
> ~/.local/share/lensfun
>
> If that works for you, please do report it (and the fact that you
> tested it), to the lensfun project, so it can be included.

Ok, so I already did, with a few other camera definitions too:

https://developer.berlios.de/patch/index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=3432&group_id=9034

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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