XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR II gets confused with "old" lens

Hi,

I just started using Photolab 8 and I have a brand new Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR II. Mind the “II”: it’s the second iteration of the venerable XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR. The new “mark II” lens isn’t yet supported by Photolab, the old one is.

However now when I open a folder with pics taken by this new lens, Photolab proposes me to download the profile for the “old” lens, the mark I version. It seems confused and seems to think this is the same lens as the old one.

Is there a way to use the built-in lens correction profile of this lens itself (the way Lightroom does it) rather than the Photolab module for the old mark I lens?

No, you can’t use the built-in correction profile with PhotoLab. But what PhotoLab is doing in your case - offering the older version I lens profile - is usually very helpful, as optical formulae don’t usually change when a lens is revised - just cosmetics, coatings, mechanics… I’ve had two Mark II lenses that were never supported in PhotoLab because of this, so just used the Mark I correction profiles which PhotoLab correctly offered to me.

In your case, did the lens optical properties change in the version II release?

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In this case the optical formula for the mk II is different.

Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR II

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Ah, then DxO will need to create new correction modules for the mark II. If you haven’t already, be sure to request support for the newer lens here:

In the meantime, I refer to the following feature request to have PhotoLab use the built-in correction parameters:

I don’t know much about these EXIF values, but I would assume they relate only to geometry.

DxO’s lens modules also deal with aberrations and varying sharpness across the frame. So even if you could use the EXIF values, you’d be missing out.