Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, the problem is that all the pictures are taken with the Speed booster. Perhaps it wasnât clear in my first post.
unfortunately the bug will probably not be fixed, I just got the following feedback:
"I appreciate your additional feedback, but the developers will not accept this as a software bug, as the problem is caused by the use of an unsupported add-on component.
If you can reproduce similar errors on images taken without the âspeedboosterâ, thatâs a different story and weâll be happy to investigate: but in this case the error seems to be an expected problem directly related to unsupported and obviously incompatible equipment."
Iâm a little disappointed, as it used to work.
I suspect they have changed the EXIF evaluation / parameter checking somehow.
I can understand that and Iâd be interested to read about what date or version it was, when it âused toâ work.
Maybe the changes were connected to the last few updates that DxO also made to previous versions. I occasionally download the installers from time to time (using the links in my shop account) and have, at times, found downloads that contained different/updated versions, even though PL itself hadnât signalled an update.
As for DxOâs response: It is inline with same business policies, no-one wants to offer support to something that is not an official part of a deal. Moreover, the lenses of a speed booster add optical flaws that PL would be unable to correct and this could lead to just another load of unpleasant comments.
Taking module info out of customising and export, PhotoLab just becomes a generic raw converter - and most people will be quite happy about that. PhotoLab is a speciality tool that supports a limited (although growing) range of gear, it is generally easy to use too. Nevertheless, the âlove it or leave itâ (full or no support) attitude could need some slack. If market share should grow, that is.
I canât say, my pictures are from 2019, so I would say at least PL 3 worked well.
For me they have something changed with the lens-detection in the exif-data.
Maybe in PL 3 they detected a non supported lens and everything worked well, and now they detect the âoriginalâ lens and use the not defined aperture-value or the not supported focal length.
PhotoLab had problems recognising lenses about 2021 and I canât find my respective posts at the moment.
I had to edit a few values in the CAFList*.db to make PL* select the correct modules, modules that had been selected automatically in earlier versions of PL. Later, the issue was corrected by DxO and I canât rule out that algorithms in PL were also changed since then. According to a test I just ran, the situation presents itself like this: PhotoLab 3, 4 and 5 export all images with DxO Standard preset applied. Other versions vary as shown below:
PL 1&2 - 3&4 - 5&6 - 7&8 as seen after export (or trial thereof)
Looks like DxO tightened precision, starting with DPL6.
DxO Updated a few pre-8 PhotoLabs.
Now we get this in our case here:
The problem seems to be: PL takes the correction modul of original lens (without the speedbooster) and then takes the not supported focalLength and FNumber.
If I change them in the EXIF-Data, it works (2 instead of 1,4 and 35mm instead of 24mm):
Thanks, Iâll give it a try.
Iâve received a message from the support this evening: they understand that there is a problem, but donât know yet how to solve the issue. They are working on it.
Oh, thatâs a better answer then Iâve got. Maybe now they know that we are more;-)
New message from the support guy: it will be fixed in a release on May 6th.
They say itâs easy but they have many many other bugs to fix before, which I understand.
An other message from the support about my problems with the Data Base:
âNous prĂ©voyons de mettre en Ćuvre et de livrer un outil pour nettoyer la base de donnĂ©es pour de telles situations dans une prochaine version de DxO PhotoLab, mais nous ne pouvons pas encore communiquer dâestimation de livraison pour lâinstant.â
âWe plan to implement and ship a tool to clean the database for such situations in a future release of DxO PhotoLab, but we cannot provide a delivery estimate at this time.â
That was promised back with V1 of Pl so could be long time coming