Added Lens Profiles Not Found by LR

[ralf11]

Lightroom Version Number

6

Operating System

1. macOS 10.14 Mojave

I have some older manual Nikon lenses (AiS, and earlier) and since LR6 doesn't support them, I found lcp files for the lens profiles at:
Download lens profiles - Photographs, Photographers and Photography

These are zipped, but unzip directly to lcp files.

I copied the lcp files to:
Macintosh HD / Users / [my username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / LensProfiles /

following instructions here; then closed & reopened LR 6 but it does not seem capable of finding the lens profiles.

Is there something I did wrong? Or is there a way to force it to use those profiles?

 

[Zenon]

Capable of finding and applying them automatically or at all?

 

[ralf11]

In the Develop mode, and in the Lens Corrections box, I check both boxes, then below is "Custom" (only option) then I set 'Lens Profile' make = Nikon, but cannot find the correct entries for 'Model' or for 'Profile' (the latter has only a single option in it).

 

[Zenon]

Not sure why it is on Custom only. Can you find any newer lenses?

 

[ralf11]

OK, I found them (at least the ones for .NEF) - they were not under Nikon alphabetically, but just have names like "55 3.5" etc.

Is there a way to rename some text inside them to say Nikkor 55 3.5 ??

 

[Zenon]

Sorry I don't know how to do that. Not sure if it is safe to rename them in the folder where the profiles are stored.

 

[Zenon]

Is it Setup still greyed out? If the other 2 options in the menus were available you might be able to get them auto apply at import. I do that with lenses that are listed via Adobe. Not sure if that would work with 3rd party as I have never tried it. You never know.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

OK, I found them (at least the ones for .NEF) - they were not under Nikon alphabetically, but just have names like "55 3.5" etc.

Is there a way to rename some text inside them to say Nikkor 55 3.5 ??

Renaming the file is useless. You would have to open them with a text editor. There is an internal name field that Lightroom uses.