P: Nikon Z6 RAW processing and Adobe WB

Dear Rikk, just to clarify: i hope it's not too much of an expectation to see some tiny progress on a major image quality issue for Nikon z lenses when i as your customer have been paying € 300 over the last 2 years. This may be nothing for Adobe but it's a lot for a small family budget. We are kicking off the phase 3 trial of a third COVID-19 vaccine - if we were to work at the same speed as Adobe, well we may well be out of the job by next year! It is really FRUSTRATING to see absolutely nothing being done for my hard earned money! Sorry to say this so clearly.

Dear Rikk, LR classic 10.1 is out, still without any sign of any progress on this Nikon z lens issue. Sorry, but can you explain this in simple terms why i am paying every month? To be punished by an utterly lazy Adobe team?

Dear Rikk, please is there perhaps a beta profile that i could test? I have again 4000+ images awaiting my edits and to be honest, it's a dreadful job since every single image needs manual adjustments of vignetting...

Dear Rikk, thanks for confirming but please relay to your colleagues that two years is a really long time (including in our lives). I have just edited a batch of 2,000 Z6 images and each single one needed readjustments of the vignetting compensation (this includes images taken with the 24-70 mm f/4 S and the 50 mm f/1.8 S). It's cumbersome to do, takes hours and really, was handled wonderfully since 2011 (?) by those great lens profiles for previous Nikon glass in Lightroom. We're spoiled customers!

The Camera Raw team is continuing their work on this issue. I have no ETA I can provide at this time. 

@8510810: can you please clarify what is going on (if anything happened since i first labeled this issue almost 2(!!!) years ago? You had requested example images, which i provided (also almost 2 years ago). There was your acknowledgment (finally) early this year that the Lightroom team is working on this. But your most recent reply seems to indicate that you're still not understanding what this issue is (although i wouldn't know any other more basic issue than proper control of vignetting). This is NOW URGENT. Mind you i'm paying € 10 every month but do not see any improvement for now 24 months... is this going to be a test of my patience (or stupidity as a paying customer for nothing)?

@8343902: agreed, it's still a significant quality issue for Nikon Z camera images in Lightroom (since late 2018....).

We also still cannot turn off the lens profile for the Z7 even when correction was turned off in camera even in the latest update. For built in profiles such as the ones the mirrorless Nikons embed in the raw files, we really need the capability to use the amount sliders like we can do for Adobe developed profiles. For example, the vignetting correction Lightroom applies using the built-in profiles is not enough. Lightroom also applies less correction than Nikon applies using the same profile when using their own raw converter at default settings.

Dear Rikk,

Thanks and oops. Our point has always been (since more than a year and backed up by several comments and example files) that the Nikon built-in profiles are low quality and that they need to be replaced by Adobe calibrated lens profiles... and yourself confirmed this (see above): "The team is working on new profiles for an upcoming release. I do not have an ETA." (7 months ago)...

Best wishes, Steffen

@9000179

Lens profiles are embedded on the Nikon Z-6 and are enabled by default. There is no need to apply one as it is already applied.

As of the August update you also have the option to disable the Lens profile. 

Given that I can't understand your disappointment because they have been there for some time.