Does lightroom honor my incamera picture control profiles?

I've been struggling with this question while importing photos from a Nikon D700.
Sometimes I switch to different picture control settings in Nikon depending on the shooting situation. I use D2x profiles for portraits frequently, but on import, lightroom seems to discard everything and applies "Adobe Standard" to all pics (RAW). Does lightroom care? Or is picture control profiles only apply to jpeg?
Please let me know what is the smoothest way I can import photos into lighroom without having to go through each photo and adjust colors. I'm sure there must be a way to import photos so that they at least reflect what I'm doing in camera.
Thanks in advance

thedigitaldog wrote:
The picture styles the manufactures provide are proprietary raw to JPEG processing in-camera. Only the manufacturers know that recipe.
a bit of a myth this. Manufacturers processes are not unknown. They are not secret in any way. The settings are applicable only to the manufacturers software (or the firmware for in camera production of jpgs). LR uses different (and superior) processing tools, so cannot apply them.
If you wish to use the in camera settings then you can
1 Shoot RAW plus jpg. The jpg will be processed according to the manufacturers settings.
2 Shoot RAW and use the propitiatory tools provided or sold by the manufacturer rather than LR.
Certain proprietary settings are actually shared and used by LR. The lens corrections built into m 4:3's cameras being an example. But the colour profiles, sharpening, noise reduction etc. in LR is different to that used by proprietary software such as DPP or Nikon Capture so these cannot be used directly. Adoe makes it's own camera specific profiles for every camera, these may not match the manufacturers. In the case of some Canon and Nikon cameras Adobe also produce alternative colour profiles which closly match (but are not exact replicas) the ones the camera manufacturer uses.
The "secret sauce" is not the information in the file, but the way each different RAW processing software uses that information. There is no right or wrong interpretation of the data and it is really down to individual preference between LR, Capture One etc. and the various manufacturers software. The biggest problem you have with using Canon or Nikon software is that it only works with Canon or Nikon cameras (which is of course the reason the manufacturers are keen on it). Whereas LR, Capture One etc. works with any camera.
The choice is all yours.

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3D_projection_Test.vi ‏38 KB

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