Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-11 Thread Christine Nielsen
ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe Standard" or "Embedded" when processing an image. It appears that Adobe Std is the default. My k-5 arrived set to the "bright" custom image tone (pg 222 when I RTFM) by default. Does it

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: > > In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe > Standard" or "Embedded" when processing an image.  It appears that > Adobe Std is the default. > > My k-5 arrived set to t

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-10-11 9:52 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe Standard" or "Embedded" when processing an image. It appears that Adobe Std is the default. That's not what I see in LR 3.5. Have you be

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-10-12 10:18 AM, Christine Nielsen wrote: I changed the image finish modes to vibrant/muted/bleach bypass/monochrome& took a photo, same scene, in each. Imported them to LR 3. As they load, they appear at first with the parameters of each mode applied (ie: monochrome looks, well, monoch

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-10-11 9:52 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: >> >> In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe >> Standard" or "Embedded" when processing an image.  It appears that >> A

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-10-11 9:52 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: >> >> In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe >> Standard" or "Embedded" when processing an image.  It appears that >> A

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-10-12 12:36 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: On 11-10-11 9:52 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: ok, LR gurus, here's a question for you: In the Camera Calibration panel of LR3... I can choose either "Adobe Standard" or "Embedded" when process

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Yeah, I'd ignore them unless you are planning to go over to the dark side > and shoot to jpeg again. > Well, *that's* not gonna happen! :) I was just looking for a quick & dirty way to process a few raw files I still think there oughtta

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread steve harley
on 2011-10-12 10:56 Christine Nielsen wrote On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Yeah, I'd ignore them unless you are planning to go over to the dark side and shoot to jpeg again. Well, *that's* not gonna happen! :) I was just looking for a quick& dirty way to process a fe

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:08 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2011-10-12 10:56 Christine Nielsen wrote >> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Walker >>  wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I'd ignore them unless you are planning to go over to the dark side >>> and shoot to jpeg again. >>> >> Well, *that's* not

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you build a preset, as Steve suggested, you can tell LR to apply that preset as it imports your images. Then they will need little or no tweaking. Take a look at this video by David Ziser. http://vimeo.com/12404424 I've been using his suggested settings with both the K-X and the K-5 and

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-12 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > If you build a preset, as Steve suggested, you can tell LR to apply that > preset as it imports your images.  Then they will need little or no > tweaking.  Take a look at this video by David Ziser. > > http://vimeo.com/12404424 Interesting.

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-15 Thread George Sinos
Hi Christine - Your suspicion is correct, at least for Nikon. Where you see Adobe Std. listed. I also see Nikon Standard, landscape, vivid, portrait etc. It's camera specific. gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Chri

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-16 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, George Sinos wrote: > Hi Christine - > > Your suspicion is correct, at least for Nikon.  Where you see Adobe > Std. listed.  I also see Nikon Standard, landscape, vivid, portrait > etc.  It's camera specific. > Yup, as I suspected! Thanks for the confirmation...

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
An update, for those interested... I posted my question on the Pentax Facebook page the other day (http://on.fb.me/pqqoiu), and today got this reply, from Pentax: "Yes, the Custom Image or Image Finishing Tone information in the .DNG file can be read in the PENTAX Digital Camera Utility Software

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-17 Thread David Parsons
They've submitted the request to Adobe. The ball is in their court now to action the request or not. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > An update, for those interested... > > I suppose "The ability to have this information available to other > applications (like Adobe Li

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe, Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Christine Nielsen An update, for those interested... I posted my question on the Pentax Facebook page the other day (http://on.fb.me/pqqoiu), and today got this reply, from Pentax: "Yes, the Custom Image or Image Finishing Tone information in the .DNG file can be read in the PENTAX Digita

Re: Re; Lightroom, "Camera Calibration", Embedded vs Adobe Std, and the k-5...

2011-10-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
I think the phrasing is curious... "The ability to have this information available to other applications" sounds to me like Pentax needs to make the info available. The info is in the dng already, but maybe not in a way that's in compliance with Adobe's protocol? On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:09 P