darktable ignores lens overrides written to XMP
darktable ignores lens and focal length values written into XMP sidecars, so manually added lens data for vintage lenses cannot override camera metadata.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
What's going wrong
Photographers who use vintage lenses on modern cameras want to add lens name and focal length to their raw files so their editor shows correct values.
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