Help with lightroom camera profiles please

[mikeyw]

Hi,

I believe it's possible in lightroom to set up profiles for your camera type to be applied to raw images on import.

Could anyone please advise where i get the D7000 profile from and how i install it ?

i'm using LR 3.5

Many thanks in advance

Mike.

 

[arad85]

There's one already installed, just LR uses a standard one for your camera. It's in the Develop module->Camera Calibration->Profile pull down.

If you want to create your own, you'll need something like an X-Rite colour checker passport.

If you want to see the sorts of differences this can make (the example is using Canon) see: http://photo.andysheen.co.uk/technical/lightroom-raw-vs-dpp-raw-processing/

 

[mikeyw]

Thanks for this -how does it know what camera i use though?

I assume it examines the exif info.

Do the profiles change between cameras so a 'portrait' profile listed in lightroom differs between a D700 and D7000?

 

[mikeyw]

Also what is the camera Raw plugin ? - I thought this might be what i needed ?

 

[redhed17]

Also what is the camera Raw plugin ? - I thought this might be what i needed ?

The (Adobe) Camera Raw Plugin is the RAW processing part of Photoshop CS/Elements, LightRoom is the cheaper RAW only processing alternative to that combination.

LightRoom gets updates for new cameras the same as the Adobe Camera Raw Plugin, though there are more updates throughout the life of LightRoom as it changes versions less often than ACR.

Once Photoshop CS/Elements changes to a new version there is a new version of ACR to go with it, and the previous version no longer receives updates for new cameras.

 

[Craikeybaby]

You. Might be worth updating to Lightroom 3.6 which will be the same as the latest ACR plug in.