So can you confirm this behavior of PAI as intended? I do not understand why, as lens correction before for example sharpening or upscaling could be beneficial for edge resolution I think. From your answer I assume the lack of PAI lens correction in the lightroom workflow is intentional. So to sum up: There is no way around lens correction directly in PhotoAI for the Lightroom RAW Workflow as soon as you got a newer camera or camera/lens combination - as most of them work with integrated profiles.

I’ve tried to do that quick an dirty, but with no luck. I think it might be possible to copy over the integrated lens correction data to the DNG, as that seems to happen when lightroom itself converts a raw with integrated profile to DNG. For example: When I use the exact same Nikon Z7II with a Sigma Lens, I can apply the lens correction to the PAI DNG after the roundtrip. That was my starting point when I first posted about this problem, remember? Applying lens correction to the resulting dng works only without embedded profiles. No, that is not possible for embedded profiles. Working in standalone mode, no correction via LRC-Plugin. Just double -checked it with a Nikon Z7II with 14-30F4 Lens. This is true for other cameras and lenses also. In the logs you can see that lensfun is only applied in standalone mode. Sorry for reporting this again, but I’ve got zero feedback from the dev and it is 4 updates since then. This is definitely a bug, not a user error.

Invoke PAI via Lightroom Module for raw workflow and do the processing in PAI.

Select an RX100M3 ARW in Lightroom Classic ( RAW Example - All rights belong to imaging-resource).

Same file in standalone mode works flawlessly.

When started in Plugin Mode via Lightroom on an Sony RX100M3 Raw (ARW) file, it does not do any Lens distortion correction.

Adobe dng converter lens correction