Nikon D700 - Which LR profile do you use?

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In Lightroom 2.6, I've tried Adobe Standard, Camera Standard and Camera Portrait. It seems some profiles suit different images more than others, eg for skin tone Camera Portrait is excellent. However I've noticed some odd background shadow rendering with the Camera profiles, weird magenta/green hues and shadow detail can be fall off to black quite abruptly - these effects are not present in Adobe Standard, but the skin tones don't do it for me.

So which do you use? Or are there proper D700 profiles out there somewhere?
 
Cannot add to this in any way other than

good question info for me as well please.
 
I've got some Nikon ones that I was sent, no idea if they are camera-specific though.

If you want them pm me your email addy
 
That's the one I've been using, found it more accurate then the D700 presets you can download for LR.
 
Thats my thinking too. I've been using it for the last day or so and ok its quite flat as is but with the appropriate tone curve, contrast and skin tones are excellent and there is no resolution issues in the shadows or any weird magenta/green hues.
 
Are you still using this profile Chris...?

How is it working out..?
 
I think either would work well. Neither suffer from the original Adobe profiles' horrendous magenta/green issues. The neutral profile I first tried is fine with an appropriate tone curve, but I think I'm going to go with the new adobe ones because its a more pleasing profile with a standard medium contrast tone curve.
 
FWIW - I find that different profiles work better on different images. I generally set one of the default Canon ones, but for images I'm processing further I always try a few options.
 
Guys, I've never really used profiles. What is the advantage to using a profile compared to just making the tweaks directly in LR? Where do you put the profiles you download in order to see them?
 
Depends on the OS:

If you are on Mac OS X, drag the "Camera v2 beta" folder to:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles

If you are on Windows XP, drag the "Camera v2 beta" folder to:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, drag the "Camera v2 beta"
folder to:

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

A profile should ensure that the shot image is colour/contrast corrected for a specific camera when converted from RAW. The adobe standard profile is actually pretty good but I think there is more you can eek out of RAW with a camera specific profile. A profile forms the starting point for your LR workflow, rather than replacing any tweaks as such.
 
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