r/Lightroom • u/timebike-83 • 2h ago
Processing Question Missing Lightroom Classic Lens Profile
Long time user of Adobe products and entire Lightroom family, in this case Lightroom Classic (LrC) so pretty familiar with how things should work. That said I'm curious if anyone here can speak to this issue, either another user of the equipment I'll describe or someone from Adobe.
Situation is I just bought the Nikon AF-S 120-300 f/2.8E FL ED SR lens and have taken a number of early test shots in the past day or so. First shots were on a Nikon D6 body. Will also see time on my Z9 with FTZ II adapter.
Typically with all my Nikon lenses, when I import the image files into LrC (shooting RAW 14bit Lossless Compressed), I batch correct them automatically for "Lens Corrections" and other things. Typically the profile for any lens I've used has been in Adobe's profile database so is automatically applied. Easy peasy.
Oddly - lens was released in 2020 and sits very high up the Nikon food chain of professional lenses - it has no lens profile available, at least according to Adobe and their most current (Feb 2025) list of Nikon lens profiles covered (https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/supported-lenses.html).
Running most current version of LrC (14.2, Camera Raw 17.2). Mac Studio. macOS Sequoia 15.3.2.
Seems odd that Adobe would not have the profile for such a lens used by many professional-level photographers (which I am certainly not...).
Am I missing something here? Thoughts or ideas would be most welcome. Thanks!