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Hacking VSCO E-M5 Camera Profiles for Olympus E-PL5 or E-PM2

Started Apr 29, 2015 | Discussions thread
il_alexk Senior Member • Posts: 2,867
Re: +1

texinwien wrote:

il_alexk wrote:

Paulmorgan wrote:

Sure you might be able to get then to work but are they any good.

Lovely DCP profiles are so simple to produce anyway, why bother with the hacking.

So true...

A couple of potential reasons:

  1. Some people (me included) enjoy 'hacking' just to see what's possible.
  2. Some people (me included) are proponents of the 'time is money' principle.

My farther uses this argument when he pays to his internet provider to help with connecting his mobile phone to the home wifi.

Anyway, there are thousands of equally good free presets for LR. The main reason for this is that "lovely profiles are so simple to produce anyway" so people do not bother with charging you money.

In my case, the value of the amount of my time that would be required to create a complete replacement of the VSCO presets and camera profiles is much higher than the price of those presets and profiles

So why not to use the presets that are already available for free? It takes 5 minutes to find them on the web, thus hacking a commercial product is going to be more expensive both in terms of time and money. Plus, you are limiting yourself to a relatively small number of very expensive presets, compared to what the collective knowledge of LR users has to offer.

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