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Lightroom and aspect ratio crop with E-M5

Started Mar 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP BoN cz New Member • Posts: 20
Re: Lightroom and aspect ratio crop with E-M5

I spent a hour with experimenting and found relatively easy solution. I edited CameraRaw.dll file in Lightroom's installation directory with a hex editor (I used PSPad) and switched E-M5 with E-P5 (replaced two occurences of E-P5 with E-M5 and also E-M5 with E-P5). This works! Photoshop now treats my E-M5 photos as taken with E-P5 and allows me to use entire 4:3 area for crops!

Of course this would need to be done each time you update Lightroom, as update will overwrite CameraRaw.dll file, but it still seems to be quite good solution to me. Much better than converting ORF to DNG or editing EXIF of each file. I didn't test DeAspect plugin that panos_m suggests, but that one seems to add menu entry that creates a duplicate raw files with modified EXIF header on selected files.

Or does anybody have a better suggestion? 

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