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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: bpuppy on March 12, 2007, 04:05:04 pm

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: bpuppy on March 12, 2007, 04:05:04 pm

With Camera RAW you could set camera defaults so that any time a Canon 30D RAW file was opened for the first time, it would apply a custom camera calibration to it. If you opened a Canon 20D file, a different setting could be loaded.

Lightroom has camera calibration but no obvious way to apply it to specific camera files only. It would be a pain to have to use the Metadata browser to apply it by hand.

Anyone know how to do this like camera RAW did it?

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: 61Dynamic on March 12, 2007, 05:23:04 pm

I do it as a develop preset for my camera that gets applied at import.

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: KeithR on March 12, 2007, 05:30:33 pm

In the latest issue of DigitalPhoto Pro(March/April), there is a rather long artical about calibrating cameras and Camera Raw, and a little about it in LR.

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With Camera RAW you could set camera defaults so that any time a Canon 30D RAW file was opened for the first time, it would apply a custom camera calibration to it. If you opened a Canon 20D file, a different setting could be loaded.

Lightroom has camera calibration but no obvious way to apply it to specific camera files only. It would be a pain to have to use the Metadata browser to apply it by hand.

Anyone know how to do this like camera RAW did it?
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Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: bpuppy on March 12, 2007, 06:42:12 pm

That's fine if you have one camera, but I have a 20D and a 30D shooting both at the same time ... I don't want to have to seperate them via Metadata and then apply the camera calibration.

Not when Camera RAW did it so nicely automatically.

KeithR ... do you have a link to this, or is this a magazine?

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: bpuppy on March 13, 2007, 10:39:25 pm

I got the mag, but it doesn't really answer my question about automating it in Lightroom.  Anyone?  Bueller ... Bueller ...

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: 61Dynamic on March 13, 2007, 10:42:59 pm

It can't be automated at this point.

Granted, saving a preset doesn't help for what's already in LR, it should work fine during import. Unless... you share a single flash card between cameras.

Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: stefpix on March 19, 2007, 05:27:03 pm

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I do it as a develop preset for my camera that gets applied at import.
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if I shoot RAW+JPG does the preset get applied to the RAW file only?
is there a guide or online resources for camera calibration?

What settings do you use?
I have a Nikon D80 and I find the red saturation in the RAW files a bit low and dull compared to the JPGs...

I think also it would be good to have presets for landscape rather than skintones etc...

i attach a sample of raw and [in camera]  jpg
stefano
stefpix dotcom

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Title: Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Post by: 61Dynamic on March 21, 2007, 06:43:27 pm

Unfortunately any metadata and presets applied during import will be applied to all images regardless of kind.

This article covers the process of calibrating ACR: http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/21351.html (http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/21351.html)

You will have to make the calibration in Photoshop and then copy it into Lightroom.