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[rivergate]

hi

there seems to have been a lot written about camera calibration with LR all over the net... but none seems to ask my question or provide any form of clue/answer to my issue ... so here goes...

i shoot raw and use a canon camera with picture style options. during a few days of shootings i may use camera standard, fathful, portrait and landscape [say]. the small jpegs look fine on the back of the camera. i download them to lr [currently 2.5 but any would seem to apply] and it then 'forgets' the picture style that i'd set in camera.

why can't lr 'remember' the picture style that i'd set in camera without me then having to go and change the profile for each 'batch' of images when downloaded to the computer?


i recognise that i can set up profiles... but they're no use when the download will include images set in camera with different picture styles.... it seems i may as well leave the camera set to one setting and then apply the styles afterwards; but then of course i don't get to see the 'corrected' image on the back of the camera

if i'm talking nonsense and missing the point... be kind

thanks

andrew

[b_gossweiler]

Andrew,

That's the way LR works.

All camera settings besides White Balance which only affect in camera JPEG rendering (like Picture Styles, ALO, Grayscale etc.) are not taken into account when importing RAW images into LR. You don't even see these settings by looking at the metadata from within LR (they're stored in the makernotes of the EXIF data).

So your conclusion (I can leave the camera set to one setting) is correct, since the corrections you see on the back of your camera won't be exactly what you'll see in LR by chosing the appropriate camera profile anyway.

Beat

[Braders]

......to expand, from my understanding, it is that Canon CR2 RAW files are proprietry format that only DPP can read. So, any setting you make on camera can not be honered in LR.

Adobe have made the profiles to match, based on testing a number of different models of the same make, however, it is generic, not specififc to your camera.

If you want to make it specific to your camera, you can download the prolile editor and shoot a bunch of test shots and create profiles yourself.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles