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1. Absolute Rotter 001,

Sep 14, 2012 3:09 AM in reply to Community Help

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I watched a video on You Tube recently in which the X-Rite Colour Checker Passport was incorporated into the Lightroom workflow. I noticed that the Lightroom being used by the tutor had a whole list of specific camera profiles, such as Canon 5D MkII for example, in the Develop\Camera Calibration\Profile drop down list. How do I get my camera profiles into that module?

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2. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,

Sep 15, 2012 7:35 AM in reply to Absolute Rotter 001

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What camera do you have?

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3. Jao vdL,

Sep 15, 2012 10:28 AM in reply to Absolute Rotter 001

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The normal camera profiles do not have the camera name in their titles in the camera calibration sections. They are simply called "camera standard", "camera vivid", "camera landscape", etc. Those are specific to your camera. If you saw profiles in that list that have a camera name in it, they are probably profiles that mimic another camera model than your own so that for example you can get the color rendering from a 5D mkII while shooting a Nikon camera. There is a company that sells these online (google for it). You can also make them yourselves using DNG profile editor. It's not hard but takes a little hacking.

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4. Absolute Rotter 001,

Sep 16, 2012 11:57 PM in reply to Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață

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Canon 5D MkII

William Fitch

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5. Absolute Rotter 001,

Sep 17, 2012 12:11 AM in reply to Jao vdL

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Hi

Thanks for this. As a rule I never use any of my camera's (Canon 5D MkII) 'styles'. I always shoot on neutral. I also have a develop pre-set in Lightroom that deselects the Brightness = 50 and Contrast = 25 (or is it the other way round?) settings that Lightroom automatically imposes on images then I use a Spyder Cube to set my white, grey and black.

I've also started using the X-Rite Colour Checker Passport, which is where the question I asked arose from. I'll stick to this route for now methinks

Thanks again

Bill

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6. Jao vdL,

Sep 17, 2012 10:52 AM in reply to Absolute Rotter 001

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I've also started using the X-Rite Colour Checker Passport, which is where the question I asked arose from. I'll stick to this route for now methinks

In Lightroom 3, if you use any of the camera profiles or the passport generated profiles, you should keep the brightness, contrast, and blacks sliders at their default (25/50/5) and the tone curve at medium contrast as starting points. The profiles are designed to give the "correct" rendering of tone and color at those settings. In Lightroom 4, they fixed this as it was confusing and now the default rendering according to the profile occurs when every setting (except white balance) is nulled out.

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