This is absolutely great! I was waiting for this day for a long time! I think this is the main thing I wanted from LR version 3!

However there significant changes in overall colour rendering, especially in lightr-blue\green colours but I can live with it.

Thank you!

My purpose in showing the raw converting from DXO was not to compare programs, but to show that there is still, albeit smaller, is a problem with Posterization, as I often  have tasks that includes white walls or light pastel colors, this is a  very annoying problem because it is very time  consuming to remove.

It has been a recurring problem  with Nikon profiles, but D3 is worse than ever, so I for that reason  have been forced to use other converters do not have the problem. It has actually been so problematic that I have had 2 times  the camera with Nikon because I was convinced that it was an error in  the camera. But I am very pleased  that Adobe is addressing the problem and hopefully get it resolved
In addition, I can only give  CarstenPix right to automatic CA correction will be very helpful. Although it  has nothing to do with profiles.
Here are some more examples  showing the problem. camera std. V.2 left./ V.1 Right.

Regards.

Per

Thank you MadManChan2000 for your effort! I have tried new profiles and they looks great, but I found out some un-smoothness in photo of rainbow.  The transitions of Camera x v2 are not smooth as older Camera x. There is a leap between yellow and green and between cyan and blue. Very similar unsmooth transitions are visible in profile Adobe Standard.

On this link you can download original raw + xmp and exported jpg (Camera Standard v2 vs. Camera Standard beta1):

http://www.edisk.cz/stahni/97416/LR3.ZIP_21.11MB.html

Eric, thanks very much for your efforts!  Here is a sample where your changes have helped me (LR rendering done in LR3B2).

The Nikon NX and v2 camera neutral renderings are almost identical, while the v1 camera neutral rendering is blotchy in comparison.

I will look for ones that do not work as well, but this is looking good Eric.

Regards

Rory

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Wayne Rotz wrote:

 

Is this just for the D3 or also for the D3s?

I saw somewhere that Eric said the profiles for the D3s are different and already "corrected".

Rory

I feel silly asking this, but I am using Vista and I don't have a file called ProgramData

, and for that matter I can't even find one called Camera Raw.  That being said, if I go through adobe labs I have no proble

m istalling their camera profiles, so I am sure there is a place for yours to go.  Do you have any other suggestions

on a way to install there files?  I am so frustrated with my D700's NEF files.

I hope that this update to the D3/D700 Nikon Camera profiles will eventually flow through to other Nikon models.  I have very noticable

cyan/magenta banding in some raw images from my D90 camera when Camera profiles are applied, such as Camera Standard.  This banding reduces significantly when I apply the Adobe Standard profile, but doesn't elimate it completely.

Tony

Eric outstanding job on these. Just downloaded these profiles and compared them to the profiles that were in Camera Raw 6.

These profiles are much better than the default profiles in Camera Raw 6, much less banding and much better neutrals.

Now if you could just create a set of profiles that would match the colors and curve that Capture One Pro 5 produces

I'd pay good money for that.

Lance

Hi Eric

It's my birthday today and you've just sent me an unexpected but very welcome present!

I don't post much on this forum but thought I'd make the effort to thank you for the hard work and effort you've put into improving this - and other - areas of Camera Raw. I've been working with Photoshop since it's first release here in the UK and have been shooting Nikons about as long. Since the change to digital I've always felt that the Adobe conversions - in Lightroom and Camera Raw - didn't quite give the quality I was getting from NX and NX2.

With the updates to the Camera Raw engine and the new camera profiles - which I presume is replicated in the Lightroom 3 v2 beta that I've been testing - the quality has come on leaps and bounds, so much so that I'm seriously considering moving the majority of my work over to Lightroom 3 when it's released but certainly to Camera Raw in the short to mid-term.

I'll get on with some more serious testing later this week but just thought I drop by and leave a token of my appreciation.

Keep up the good work!

Jason

Replica Imaging Limited - UK

www.replica-imaging.co.uk

MadManChan2000 wrote:

 

The goal is simply to produce the same rendition that NX produces (whether good or bad, natural or not) -- and hopefully artifact-free. To be clear: The original feature request was, "Please give us colors similar to the camera maker's colors."

Eric, thanks very much for the work you've done on these profiles. After working on my own custom camera profiles, I know how much work this takes. So thanks again for the noticeably improved results.

Quick question for you: The following website has some sample images that seem to demonstrate some weaknesses in the way Lightroom produces almost banding-like artifacts when rendering color gradients or defocused areas of color (I see his happen, for example, if there are out-of-focus flowers in the background of wedding images (usually deep reds and deep purples are the worst culprits).

See near the bottom of this page:

http://ishootshows.com/2010/01/22/lightroom-3-vs-nikon-capture-nx-2/

So my other question is: Is this more a function of better calibrating and tweaking for the color table within the DNG Profile Editor? Or is it more a function of tweaking the Tone Cuve?

Thanks!

These profiles are very close to the in camera JPG.  Perfect! 

Really dumb question here, but in my Camera Profiles folder I've got folders named 'Camera', 'Camera beta 1', 'Camera beta 2', and now 'Camera v2 beta'. How do I know which camera profiles are being used in LR3?

I put the two folders "Nikon D700" and Nikon D3 inside the CameraProfiles folder (Mac - 10.5) and also put the Camera v2 beta folder in there as well (first) but LR3 under Camera Calibration/Profile all is see is "Embedded." Any sugestions?

thanks much.

D.

DHayMil wrote:

 

all is see is "Embedded." Any sugestions?

What Dorin said.

Camera profiles are used for converting raw images, so you need to be working on your raw files, not files which have already been converted.