Inbuilt lens profile correction is not read by LrC

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August 1, 2026
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I’m shooting raw with an OM System OM-3 + 17mm f1.8 II. Regardless if import is by “Copy to DNG” or just “Copy”, the inbuilt profile is not read. Distortion is obvious. In OM Workspace, the profile is read. To get the correction, I need to go into Develop>Lens Correction and tick Enable Profile Corrections. It makes the correction. The dialogue box shows:
Setup: Default
Make: OM Digital Solutions
Model: OM 17mm F1.8 II
Profile: Camera Settings

I’ve never had this problem before, albeit with other OM gear. It usually shows an icon indicating that the inbuilt lens profile has been read.

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Bob TrlinAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks guys but I find the Preferences>Presets page mindbogglingly difficult to understand. However, I’ve run a test, first with the older Olympus 60mm macro and then with the OM System 17mm f1.8 II both on the OM-3. Both are handled differently:
60mm macro

17mm f1.8 II

So, with the older 60mm macro, the inbuilt profiles are applied, with the newer 17mm f1.8 II, they are not applied. The only thing that has changed is the lens. LrC even recognised the 17mm f1.8 II but doesn’t do anything about it.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

See @Jao vdL answer and my answer. You need to check ‘Enable Profile Corrections’ (and I would also enable ‘Remove Chromatic Aberration’) and then save that as a new Develop preset, that you then apply on import. Or you need to set it as the camera default in Preferences - Presets: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/raw-defaults.html

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Bob TrlinAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks guys. I just didn’t understand what you meant but it’s clear now.
What do you think, is this because Adobe hasn’t caught up with new OM lenses yet, or this the way it will be?

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Just tried it with a sample orf file from dpreview with same camera/lens combo (https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/1564684221/661901 ) and it imports with lens correction enabled by default. I used no presets on import. You might need to have camera settings set as the default for raw images (preferences->presets->raw defaults) for Lightroom to do this automatically.

This is the default way of handling built in profiles for newer (from the last several years) mirrorless cameras by the way. With older cameras you would see the “built in profile automatically applied” badge. With newer it uses the lens correction panel fully where you choose another profile if you want or to even turn off the correction. I wish Adobe enabled this for older mirrorless cameras too.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Apply a preset on import (or as camera default) that enables lens profiles. Maybe you even had such a preset and it got disabled.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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