Hi,
I've recently begun taking photos of prints, for archival purposes. When I checked the images I realized that they had quite higher contrast compared to the way I perceived the prints with my own eyes (the difference was obvious as I was shooting tethered so I had both the image on a calibrated display and the print side by side). Please note that I'm shooting in raw.
This made me remember that, when Lightroom 4 came out, with all the changes in the develop module, Eric Chan (I apologize if it was not him) wrote that the new develop system had now an embedded contrast increase applied automatically.
I would therefore like to know if somebody has made some tweaks to the defaults in order to neutralize this contrast boost, just to have a more natural, flatter image to start with, as I much prefer to add contrast on my own.
Returning to my subject, I made some testing and it looks to me that by setting Contrast to -45 makes the image perceptually much closer to the print.