Sony RX-10 iv

When you look at the Lens Corrections panel, is the “Built-in Lens Profile Applied” message at the bottom of the panel, as shown below?

If so, what does it say when you click the (i) icon? My guess is that it will say that the built-in profile for that camera/lens combination is already applied to the image. This is typical for lenses that are permanently attached to the camera, which I think is true for the RX10, right?

I have a Sony RX100 and it’s the same situation. Separately selectable lens profiles are available only for the cameras I have with detachable lenses, or for phone cameras. But my cameras with integrated lenses, from multiple manufacturers, have never had separately selectable Adobe lens profiles, always built-in.

I am not sure of the explanation, but I think it might have to do with this: To achieve a wide range of focal lengths in a more compact lens design than was possible with film cameras, many compact digital cameras use a lens design where extreme distortion is unavoidable…unless a lens profile is always used to correct it, which it is, so users never see the extreme distortion. Many applications make this profile non-optional, because if someone could disable it, the uncorrected distortion would make the image unusable. So for cameras with this type of lens, the built-in profile is always already applied.