NGC 4434. Top panel: azimuthally averaged light profiles in the g (blue) and i (red) bands. Center panel: (O−C) residuals of the VEGAS profiles and the V-band profile of K+09 with respect to the best-fitting r^{1 / 4} model (see Table 4). The best match is obtained with the shifts listed in Table 5. VEGAS data for a^{1 / 4}< 1.2 are affected by seeing. Bottom panel: (g − i) color profile. Again the data at a^{1 / 4}< 1.2 have not been corrected for seeing.