Lightroom CC 2015: Lens metadata field missing on import

The latest incarnation of Adobe Lightroom has left some of us with a BUG!

If you open the filter bar in the Library Module you may see something like this:

The bug in the system is showing UNKNOWN LENS in the metadata tab of the Library filter bar.

This is a bit strange seeing as it recognises the same lens on the same camera a week before!

If you see this sort of behaviour in your Lightroom installation DON’T PANIC.

As you can see, the lens metadata is being read in the Lens Corrections panel in the Dev module – so don’t for one minute think that all the metadata has been mysteriously stripped from your files!

This is a bug inside the ‘inner gubbins’ of the latest version of Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6, and Adobe are working to rectify the problem in the next update.

There isn’t a great deal being mentioned on the internet about this particular problem – you wouldn’t know about it unless you tried filtering the Library by lens.

But the official acknowledgement is here if you are interested

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