@zogstrip - is the conversion being done using imagemagick? If so, would you mind pointing me to the relevant section?
It appears that we may only need an option to convert any images to sRGB if they have a different profile embedded, and then either strip the profile or specify that the image is now sRGB.
I was thinking about this and this seems very specific to a photography forum. If they want to keep all the metadata/color profile, they can just set SiteSetting.strip_image_metadata to false. For majority of the images, keeping the exif or iptc metadata isn’t going to be very useful.
Interesting @Patrick_David, so this is not really a bug… it is a feature request to allow for fidelity when stripping exif tags (or simply misunderstanding an existing feature)
I am going to close this for now, but feel free to open a new topic if you find setting strip_image_metadata to false unacceptable.