I just checked and I have been using Adobe Standard in Camera Calibration. When you have the chance, please let me know what you are using and I'll take a look into how that looks here. But, now I have a better idea of how different people are customizing the the import process. It sounds like you're using the basic Adobe default (Exposure 0, Recovery 0, Fill 0-, Blacks 5, Brightness 50, Contrast 25 and Presence all 0, do you leave the tone curve at medium and lens corrections enababled?) and then adding your own recipe to taste as a new default. I will experiment a little with doing that.
Thank you all again Jon
Jon,
I do my "calibration" after I import photos as part of my develop workflow. I have several Presets created based on the camera banks I have setup (I am shooting a Nikon D3s). In camera I have a Landscape, Portrait, Action and Point and Shoot banks setup. I always shoot RAW+JPEG. In LR, I played with various settings until I was able to reproduce the look that I wanted for each camera bank when shooting RAW (using the JPEG images as a comparison). Once I had the look the way I wanted, I created a Preset for it (example: D3s Landscape Full Sun). The preset works on 90% of my imports with no modification needed.
Here is my preset for Landscape Full Sun:
Camera Calibration: 2010 Process, Profile: Camera Landscape
Lens Correction: Profile for the lens, this is automatic as I have it set as the Develop Default
Detail: Sharpening 30, Radius .8, Detail 25, Making 0; Noise Reduction: Luminance 20, others default
Brightness: +47
Contrast: +59
Vibrance: +6
All other settings are default