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Don't Waste Your Time
Many digital camera manufacturers offer custom image effects that are sometimes quite compelling. The Canon 5D, for example, offers you a choice of electronic filters and toning effects to create a specific black and white look. But if you are using Lightroom and shooting RAW, don't waste your time fiddling with these settings; they won't be recognized.
It MAY look like the settings are recognized when you first import a RAW file into Lightroom.
But it will only take a moment and the effect will be gone. That's because Lightroom momentarily displays the image preview generated by your digital camera, which of course reflects the special settings. But then Lightroom generates a new preview; one based on your Lightroom preview settings. The image will quickly appear in color, reflecting the default Lightroom RAW conversion settings.
If you want to have these camera-generated settings apply to your RAW image you'll need to use the proprietary software that came with your camera. Sometimes this software is free, other times it is extra. Or, you can shoot JPEG, in which case you lose all the advantages of shooting RAW.
Of course, by now you've learned all the awesome things you can do with Lightroom's Develop module, so custom camera settings aren't that important. Just don't waste your time.
I have noticed that you have your name in place of "Adobe Lightroom" above the Navigator. I just wanted to know how is it possible?
Agree with the drift of your argument, and these settings are undocumented so LR can't be expected to use them. But wouldn't it be great if LR could display the camera's preview on demand? Maybe it's unimportant and you should decide afterwards, but how do you remember that you planned a shot to be sepia?
Keerthi - look at the Identity Plate setting.
Granted this is what happens. However, during the actual shoot, if I'm intending to produce B&W images (for instance) at the end, I find it useful to have that setting in-camera to help me visualise how the lighting etc. will pan out - so not really a waste of time at all for me!
This is one of the few cases where I actively use RAW + JPEG mode. While V1.0 treats the JPEG as a sidecar file, it is possible to get them to import them by choosing a folder other than the RAW folder. As this issue came up in one of the Podcasts, I suspect they will work on it. Then we'll have the best of both worlds for situations like these!
Ah, Sean, wouldn't it be nice if Lightroom would import both the RAW and JPEG at the same time? We can dream, right?
Indeed it would!
Hi,
As you comment, sometimes I see a beautifull photo during some seconds and suddenly LR kill the colors of my Photo.
How can I get theses colors? ... yes, Can be usefull that LR show the emmbeded preview on Demand.
But, It is a huge work to try to simulate the colors that the camera gets using camera settings.
I am trying to get a LR Preset to simulate a Nikon camera presets (or NX) presets to get the same colors with LR.
do you know where can I get them?
Note: I want NX colors in LR program!!!
regards