Camera Raw brightness and contrast preset for art capture?

I'm capturing oil paintings for reproduction with a D3x tethered to Lightroom 3.  I'm converting though in camera raw.  My camera profile is created using Color Checker Passport software/target which uses a DNG file.  Given that, the profile is build without brightness or contrast adjustments.  My question is, for accurate color, tone and exposure capture should the default ACR presets for brightness and contrast be reset to 0? 
Thanks!

Or use the Zero'd setting on import to get no initial settings. However, I thing you'll find doing your own is better.
Don
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