Automatic Lens Optimization for the 50mm f/1.8 for the mark5dIII?

[Jack56]

I've got a 50mm f/1.8. bought with the 60d. Now I've bought the mark5dIII, I like to know if I can still use this lens on the Mark5dIII.
i've read something about lens optimization:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/5d-mk-iii/users-guide/
Is this necessary?

 

[Loswr]

Yes, it will work, as will any EF lens (but not EF-S).

Performing an autofocus microadjustment (AFMA) is always a good idea, particularly with a fast lens. I use Reikan FoCal for that.

 

[Don Haines]

Hopefully Neuro will correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that the Automatic Lens Optimization was for the in-camera Jpegs and had no effect on the RAW images...

If you shoot RAW, this can be corrected in Lightroom (or just about any other software) by enabling the lens profile in the software. Note that Lightroom will compensate for vignetting, chromatic aberration, and distortion.

Shooting RAW gives you way more control over the final output and allows you to do colour balancing that you can not do in-camera without the use of sophisticated external colour metering.

Note that this is NOT AFMA, another adjustment you can make to improve focusing accuracy.

 

[East Wind Photography]

Yes the in camera optimizations apply only to jpg and what you see on the screen. Does not manipulate raw images. In order to add it to the camera database you need to use the eos utility and add it to the internal lens list if it's not already selected by default.

Hopefully Neuro will correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that the Automatic Lens Optimization was for the in-camera Jpegs and had no effect on the RAW images...

If you shoot RAW, this can be corrected in Lightroom (or just about any other software) by enabling the lens profile in the software. Note that Lightroom will compensate for vignetting, chromatic aberration, and distortion.

Shooting RAW gives you way more control over the final output and allows you to do colour balancing that you can not do in-camera without the use of sophisticated external colour metering.

Note that this is NOT AFMA, another adjustment you can make to improve focusing accuracy.

 

[East Wind Photography]

I've got a 50mm f/1.8. bought with the 60d. Now I've bought the mark5dIII, I like to know if I can still use this lens on the Mark5dIII.
i've read something about lens optimization:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/5d-mk-iii/users-guide/
Is this necessary?

To your original point though....yes it will work and no you dont need to do the optimizations but its nice to have if you shoot in camera jpg.

 

[Jack56]

Thanks!
So, I've also got a 100mm L lens. I have to use the cd that came with the 5d3?

 

[East Wind Photography]

Thanks!
So, I've also got a 100mm L lens. I have to use the cd that came with the 5d3?

Yes you should use the cd that came with the camera or you can go to canon website and download the latest version under 5diii software updates. Not much difference between versions but they add extra lens and camera support and quite possibly tweak some of the lens optimization parameters.

Check to make sure you have the latest firmware update as well. They tweaked the low light AF capability quite a bit. You can update that as well from the eos utility.

 

[Jack56]

East Wind, thank you very much for your help.
When I go to the website, I have to choose the language and when I choose macro 100 mm L f/2.8, and choose software, it doesnt give any results. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Thanks!
So, I've also got a 100mm L lens. I have to use the cd that came with the 5d3?

Yes, as noted on page 149 of your instruction manual, you can use Canon utilities to obtain any new lens profiles if / as Canon makes them available.
One comment about the 100L - Macro lenses tend to be very good, no matter which brand, and really don't benefit a whole lot from any correction, so it might not be offered.

Once you install the software from the CD, go online to the Canon Website and update all of it. Canon updates the software fairly regularly, and the CD version has bugs that you don't want. The version you see online is a update, but there is a general online version (EOS Digital Solution Disk 28.2X that is a updated CD) that you can install, it will likely need updating as well.
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_5d_mark_iii#DriversAndSoftware

 

[East Wind Photography]

East Wind, thank you very much for your help.
When I go to the website, I have to choose the language and when I choose macro 100 mm L f/2.8, and choose software, it doesnt give any results. What am I doing wrong?

Dont go to the lens...go to the 5diii camera.

 

[Jack56]

Thank you again. I cannot use my product code at the moment. Will have to wait till tomorrow. Will try tomorrow evening. Hope I may ask for assistance when I've got troubles with it.
Have a very nice evening!

 

[bainsybike]

Yes the in camera optimizations apply only to jpg and what you see on the screen. Does not manipulate raw images.

The in-camera optimizations for the EOS M are applied to RAW images, but you can undo them in DPP, whereas you can't if you shoot jpg. Is it different for the 5DIII?