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yowayowa
Inspiring
December 22, 2019
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Strange Lens Correction Panel Behaviour

  • December 22, 2019
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Does anyone know why adjusting the parameters in the Lens Correction Panel would make Lightroom suddenly choose to using an alternate (and incorrect) profile? Maybe just a bug?

 

Lens profile enabled. I click 'Setup: Default' and the correct profile loads, I then move either the distortion or vignetting slider and the incorrect profile is loaded. I took a screen reocrding but don't seem to be able to add it here.

 

These are regular DNG files, converted from ARW with Lightroom, not EXIF tweaked in any way. They have completely stadard metadata. Lightroom correctly identifies the camera and lenses in various metadata fields. Sony A7RII. The problem exists with a variety of Sony lenses (Batis, Sony G etc). The option to reset my lens profiles to defaults is greyed out, I guess that means that they are reset. I also emptied out the LensProfileDefaults folder to make sure that nothing odd had ended up set. No change.

 

I have only just noticed the issue. It could have come with in Lightroom 9.

 

Many thanks.

 

Lightroom 9.1

MacOS 10.14.6

 

 

Correct answer yowayowa

Many thanks. I do understand what you are saying about the built in profiles. You have clearly found another issue that might be looked at by Adobe. I'll try and focus on this issue for the moment. This does seem to be a recent change in behavior to me. Thanks you though.


Neither Lens Profile 'reset to defaults' or emptying the LensProfileDefaults folder fixed the issue.

 

I think I have found a solution, though.

 

'Reset all default develop settings' in preferences. This will not clear up the issue until you then reset the affected images, for me around two months of imports. Then the Lens Correction Panel is back to normal.

 

Oh well. At least that appears to be it. Sorry to post ^^

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mk29376512
Known Participant
July 2, 2024

I have exactly the same problem, and kno wexactly what you mean,  and it's been happening for years and on all my cameras. This is definitely not expected behaviour and it feels more like a bug. It's really annoying. To solve it I have to choose the lens manually, and then the sliders don't reset the lens correction. What I think it is though is when you apply a preset that has a different lens correction saved in it. If I then click auto, it selects the correct lens. If I then move a slider it reverts to the lens correction that was in the preset. 

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mk29376512
Known Participant
July 2, 2024

In fact try this. Apply a preset with a different lens correction in it (in my case this will often be from a different camera brand altogether). click auto, it selects the correct lens. Now move the slider, it reverts to the lens in the preset, which is not expected behaviour. Now if you change (in my case) simply the camera brand, it chooses the right lens and the sliders work as expected again. 

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mk29376512
Known Participant
March 7, 2020

Hi, I get the same behaviour and understand exactly what you mean and have explained in your post, this seems like a bug, or at best an unexpected behaviour, the profile should definitely not change when you move a slider. Have you reported it as a bug?

Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot Me
Legend
December 22, 2019

Show us a screen shot or upload your video to Utube and post a link.

 

Doesn't happen on my system with the few A7R3 images I have. In fact supposedly the proper lens profile is included in the RAW file and applied automatically as is the case with all mirrorless cameras and lenses for those cameras.

 

Enabling the Profile correction loads the Adobe created lens profile which may or may not be better in your eyes.

 

 

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yowayowaAuthor
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December 22, 2019

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2019

When it says that a built-in lens profile is applied, you should not select another lens as what will happen is that you get lens corrections applied doubly. For some cameras Adobe made the bad decision to always apply lens corrections. You cannot turn them off. I did not think this happens to files from Sony A7RII cameras though. I know it happens to my Z7 files.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/disable-built-in-lens-profile

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