At this point I don’t care. I’ve wasted two hours now on learning EXIF tool just to be able to maybe make my lenses work with DxO PhotoLab. This is completely ludicrous – and unacceptable – that we are not able to download and apply lens profiles manually. If I wanted to fiddle around on the command line when developing images, I’d be using RawTherapee. It’s free.
Yes, it’s DxO’s software and they have the right to mistreat their paying customers however they like. New users have the option to not buy the software and existing users have the right to complain loud and far about this kind of arbitrary restriction.
I am really angry now to see my time and other photographers time wasted. Not only is PhotoLab 5x slower than CaptureOne due to an out of date processing engine which can’t handle large files and/or 4K preview, the managers at DxO think it’s okay to waste our time fighting our files by blocking us from applying lens profiles manually.
Why would I work for free as a goodwill ambassador for people who think it’s okay to just waste our time?
I’m so fed up with hearing about this new DAM project or any other major new features when the basics such as speedy processing are being ignored (at least new camera and lens profiles are at last being updated in almost timely way). A “new” feature of manually updating lens profiles has 15 votes and would only take a couple of afternoons for the DxO development team to implement. The contempt DxO managers have for their existing paying users seems to be infinite.