In-camera settings to camera raw

Is it possible to export the in-camera settings to camera raw in CC?
Back when i have CS3 camera raw did read my camera settings and started with showing them as standard when i opened my raw files.....

Adobe reads the camera setting of white-balance which is specified in an industry-standard way, but mostly camera settings are only appropriate for the camera manufacturer’s raw converter in camera or in their software.
Adobe has their own raw converter which has its own settings.
What you may be referring to is the Profile in the Camera Calibration tab that defaults to Adobe Standard but for some models of cameras you can change to Camera Standard, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait, Camera Landscape, etc, depending on whether Adobe has developed these simulated camera mode profiles or not for the model of camera the raws are from.
Is this what you’re talking about? You can set ACR to have a different default profile than Adobe Standard, but you cannot have ACR read the camera settings for a profile and select the simulated profile automatically.

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Aperture not showing camera settings applied on RAW images

I have the Canon EOS 1D Mark II N. When in-camera settings like contrast, sharpening, etc are applied in camera, then those images are loaded directly from card reader into Aperture the in-camera changes are not applied to the Raw images. The Jpeg images DO show the in-camera settings contrast/sharpening etc being applied. I can take the memory card and load those same images into DPP Digital Photo Professional and the settings applied in camera do show on the BOTH Raw and Jpeg files.
In Aperture when I look at the thumbnails of the RAWs and JPEGs side by side. It is obvious which ones are the jpegs just by the contrast added in camera.
I can Also take the images within Aperture-export masters to desktop, then open them in DPP and the contrast/sharpening shows on the raws and jpegs the same in DPP.. It seems to be just Aperture..
Is this Normal? That Aperture does not read the in-camera changes on the Raw files? On the Metadata EXIF Expanded, It does read the exposure Bias, shutter speed etc correctly on the Raws, just not the Contrast or sharpening changes.

Hi Kathy,
This is expected. Settings you make in the camera, for things like color space, sharpening, white balance, etc. don't really apply to RAW images. This is the way the camera and RAW software are designed -- the RAW is really untouched, and this information is tagged along as "meta information." No actual transformation on the image is performed.
You take the RAW image into a RAW converter (Aperture's a good one and make the changes you want. In some cases (White Balance) the tagged info is used, but in others (sharpening, color space) it's not. Aperture uses the widest possible color space (it's wider than ProPhoto RGB from what I've been told, though I haven't used my handy gamut checker to verify
So this contrasts with JPEGs. JPEG is a "final" format -- so the settings you have configured in your camera are actually used in the creation of the JPEG. It is sharpened, color balanced based on your settings, fit into a color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.) compressed, and written as a JPEG. You can't take these things "back" once that has been done.
Aperture actually makes working with both types of images so similar that it's difficult to really notice the differences. If you work with a more labor-intensive workflow like Adobe Camera RAW, you'll notice all the extra steps you must employ to get from RAW to JPEG.

Loss of camera settings when importing raw files in Aperture 3

Hello Everyone,
I seem to have an issue with raw pictures taken with a Nikon D90. I noticed that when shooting in raw, any setting I used on the camera (for example B&W or landscape settings) are lost after the pictures are imported in A3. Did anyone else experience the same issue? Is there any solution to this?
Thanks,
Val

Shooting raw will always give best results and probably simplest to do any adjustments you want inside of Aperture. When you select B&W Aperture is not communicating with Nikon fully or visa versa. It is a simple and more rewarding experience to set B&W or any other settings in the Adjustments Pane in Aperture. There is another small tab also called Adjustments which opens a drop down window. Here there are a range of options to choose from one is B&W. Another pane then opens with red green or blue filters. B&W is sensitive to colour. With these you can change the way the grey scale sees things like the blue sky or foliage.
Another nice feature of raw is no need to worry about White Balance. Leave the camera on Auto WB, any inaccuracy can be easily sorted in Aperture. Nikon has quite good auto WB anyway.
To begin, it is best to consider raw as a starting point rather than a finished product until you get used to the things that do and don't interface twixed camera and Aperture.
I hope that is some help. Welcome to Aperture. Allan

Camera settings when importing raw

do any camera setting (portrait , landscape,contrast,saturation,etc,) matter when importing raw.

thanks very helpful
if i like one of my custom setting, best thing would be shoot in raw+jpeg, match raw in lightroom to jpeg and save as preset,that way i could save time in prossessing.
and future raw just use preset for prossessing.

RAW Native Camera Settings for Nikon - do they convert?

Question on RAW processing in Lightroom. Can Lightroom show ALL of the the in-camera settings (WB, saturation, etc.) selected when the shot was taken? I prefer not to have to re-cook the RAW photos from scratch on every picture. Nikon NX2 provides this option (i.e. the RAW and JPEG can look identical as starting points on your screen) which I find helpful versus dealing with uncooked RAW images to start with each time. I am considering Lightroom for lots of other good reasons but this is a threshold issue for me due to time, etc.
Would love to hear anyone's experience on this. I use a Nikon D80.
Thanks much.
Gary

Robert,
Specific camera settings,etc, are in fact stored in Nikon Nefs and can be read by NX2--or changed, if one wishes in NX2, but nowhere else, as has been stated.
Eric,
Presets, or profiles, may come close in some instances to reasonably good starting points for NEFs in LR2, so if that is all you need or use NX2 for, then your advice is reasonable.
However, at this point in time, NX2 has some distinct advantages, most notably much more advanced and faster local corrections tools than LR2 and soft proofing, to name two.
However, LR2 editing is integrated with a catalog database, and NX2 is browser based, and that may make LR2 worth the tradeoff for some users. Both, of course, offer non destructive editing.
Each has it strengths and weaknesses, so I use both to take advantage of the unique tools each offers.

Newbie photographer, question about in-camera settings and RAW

I have a Nikon D200, and I can make a wealth of in-camera settings that would greatly mitigate the amount of post-production processing that I would have to do. Nikon's own RAW Capture NX software reads these settings. I'm assuming that Aperture doesn't read (most) of them (with, perhaps, the exception of White Balance, and maybe Hue). Is there a reference somewhere of what in-camera settings are preserved by Aperture on a RAW import?
Thanks in advance,
Mark Taber

It's a pretty safe assumption that no raw editor except the OEM version will remember the in-camera settings, aside from white balance.
Why's that? Because those settings don't really do anything anyway - they are just advance instructions for the converter.

I'm considering buying CC LR/PS package. My camera is Sony a7 - raw ARW. I've been editing using PSE10 and ver 8.7 of the external Adobe DNG converter. Will I be able to open the DNG files in LR with the edits preserved? Will I be able to open the PSD fil

I'm considering buying CC LR/PS package. My camera is Sony a7 - raw ARW. I've been editing using PSE10 and ver 8.7 of the external Adobe DNG converter. Will I be able to open the DNG files in LR with the edits preserved? Will I be able to open the PSD files in LR with the edits preserved? Any import/catalog etc issues between PSE10 and LR?

Lightroom has no problem reading DNG files. Whether the edits you have done to the DNGs you have originally edited in Photoshop Elements 10 I'm not sure. ACR edits made to DNGs are saved in the DNG file itself, as apposed to a XMP sidecar file, so LR should see those edits. At the worst you will get an exclamation mark in the upper right hand corner of the imported DNGs and clicking on that exclamation mark you will get a dialog box asking you to either import settings from disk or overwrite settings. you would select import settings from disk.

Advice on Nikon D200 Camera Settings

I have a Nikon D200 and I was wondering what camera settings would be more beneficial for me with working in Lightroom with RAW (DNG) files? The settings I am referring to are: Sharpening, Tone Compensation, Saturation, etc. Is it better to adjust these in the camera or in the post processing of the images in Lightroom.
Also, a DNG question: I will be converting all of my NEF files to DNG, should I just leave RAW compression off in the camera or turn it on???
Thank you in advance.

So, in essence, it is the generated JPG from the RAW file that looks like crap when the tone compensation, sharpening, saturation, etc are all set to none in the D200??? I notice a big difference with the thumbnail view, I wasn't sure if it effected the actual RAW file. It seems to me though that I have noticed from time to time that some of my images do not need sharpening (since my camera settings are on 2+ sharpening), however, when I increase the sharpening in Lightroom I begin to see the halo effect due to the increase sharpening. With that being said, I set my camera sharpening back to normal and I will have to try it and see what I get (I have not shot the camera since the change).

Camera settings when using Aperture

In this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24520115#24520115
I give the advice that it is best to only set ISO, aperture and shutter speed on the camera when shooting RAW. Leave the rest at the camera defaults.
Is that good advice?
While YMMV based on the camera model, in general it seems that there is no guarantee that Aperture can understand or honor any other camera settings besides the Big Three. Note I include white balance as one to leave alone!
Does Apple provide any advice on this?

I suggest the following as a conceptual framework.
Cameras today do two things that are best thought of as distinct families of operatons. They _record data_, and they _make pictures_.
I use my camera as a data recorder. I then upload the data to my computer, and use Aperture (and other software programs) to make pictures from the data I recorded. The camera saves this data in RAW files.
As an almost universally applicable rule, computers do a better job making pictures than cameras do. (Personally, I would like to see this distinction made real: I don't want to pay for camera bodies that do any more computing than data recording and display requires. How many Sony cameras -- just to pick on the brand I use -- have ever been used to show slideshows on Bravia TVs?)
The settings that are important for data recording are (as you listed) those for _exposure_: duration (stupidly known as "shutter speed"), aperture (I suggest "hole size"), and (as I understand it) signal amplification (stupidly known as ISO). Everything else (including White Balance) are, literally, post-processing operations. ("Post-processing" is, afaik, a short form of "Post-exposure processing".) The other exposure settings are important, but not usually thought of as settings: focal length, focus distance, location and direction of camera.
The above is for RAW data recording. JPG is not a light data format, it is an image format. As such, JPG requires post-processing. For me, JPG is a quick-and-dirty, proofing format. It has its uses. I almost never use it.
Keith Barkley wrote:
Does Apple provide any advice on this?
Not that I know of. Apple prefers to flood valleys and let users figure out where to build their vacation homes and how to not crash their boats on submerged rocks. They have mastered the art of presenting appealing vacation-lands. Part of that is _not_ listing rules for use beyond the most general, and certainly not letting users know how cold it gets at night or that scorpions can nest in your slippers. Specifically, they remove any odor of engineering from every product they sell. The advice you are asking for is good, useful, and ... (broadly) engineering. Apple prefers (imho) to have its users provide that to those who seek it, so that those who don't seek it won't be discouraged from buying the vacation package .
--Kirby.

Color settings on camera

I've been doing a lot of playing with my new Canon XL2 and am starting to wonder if messing with the on camera settings is really worth the time? I mean, with the white balance set properly and lighting set, the other options seem to be a waste of time. For one thing, you can't see the colors well enough on the small view finder to make great judgement calls, the footage that you import is going to eventually go to color anyway to be checked and possibly corrected, and its very easy to put a little too much of something in the original that you might wish you'd have caught before pressing record.
So, how many of you spend the time to setup the camera during filming? Is this a skill I should really perfect, or am I ok leaving it set to auto for those types of things and just worrying with the white balance and light settings?
Thanks,
glenn

Let me get this straight, you are presenting an argument against learning your toolset? You are throwing out craft and knowledge for an auto-everthing minidv camera and a piece of software? Is this an argument against professional Digital Imaging Technicians and everything they bring to the plate in a digital cinema production? Is this an argument against professional video operators and everything they bring to live/live to tape multicam productions?
Briefly, there is merit in recording almost a raw, unprocessed image such as that from the Thomson Viper but at the same time, the Canon XL2 is an 8bit minidv camera; think highly compressed, narrow dynamic range video format. I should think that rather than process the heck out that imaging in post, that you'd want to learn to paint your imaging in camera or at least through careful charting and camera control know that you're maximizing as much dynamic range as you can get from such a wretched video format. Yeah, no way can Mr. Auto do that.
You are correct that the piddly lcd viewfinders on these "prosumer" cameras leave a lot to be desired which is why on set monitoring is of the utmost importance. If you're employing a lighting rig than you sure as h3ll should also be employing on set monitoring.
You are saying it's a waste of time to learn how to control gamma, the knee points, detail, master ped, and other arcane things such as chroma levels, hue, color matrices and iris and just leave it all in automatic, to let the visions of some nameless engineers in Japan determine how we should view things??
I'm sorry to be blunt but I don't see how this can be taken seriously. I would go broke if I took this point of view in my present and future employment.
Z

Camera processed copies of RAW files?

Hi, I was wondering, if there is a way to make a copy of a RAW file from the processing settings that the camera intially applies upon taking a RAW photo.
Essentially while looking through my RAW files in Bridge, I noticed that when previewing the files, they show as the settings the camera shot with (In my case, B&W with Purple tint and fairly high contrast). Now what I want to do, is save a copy of this image as a JPEG file with the original settings, as if I had shot the picture as a JPEG. Upon opening Camera Raw I notice that these settings are scrapped for different ones, which isn't what I want. I'm new to shooting in RAW and in fact, the particular scenario at hand was caused by me accidentally shooting in RAW.
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

There is software that will display and save the JPEG image that's embedded in the raw file.
For example, IrfanView can be set to extract the JPEG from a Canon .cr2 file and display it. It's a simple File - Save As away from saving it as whatever you like.
I believe the Canon software that comes with the camera can extract the JPEGs directly and save them (or at least it could at one time, I haven't used it in an age).
-Noel
P.S., it is also possible to set up defaults in Camera Raw to match the in-camera JPEGs very closely. While Jeff may not like the look his camera gives his JPEG files some of us do, and I find it makes a good starting point, as there's just one "image" to start with, no matter how you view it.

Nikon camera settings for an adobe only workflow

If I use a Nikon D70, shoot raw, don't use Nikon nx, and want to import into Lightroom as dng--are there certain in-camera setting to use or avoid? Use to think only decision was whether to import as dng or nef. But if Nikon's in camera settings aren't accessible without nx, do you have to rethink all your camera settings just because you want to import into Lightroom as dng?
Thank you,
Tim

I also just convert my NEF's to DNG on import. I tried some of the presets for import, but quickly realized that all of the photos on a memory card rarely need the same things. I would also argue that most people don't choose all the optimal settings in camera (hence the advantages of RAW).
For this reason, I find my best workflow is to simply edit groups of pictures that are similar. So if I take a few pictures inside at a birthday party, I will spend a few minutes in the develop module changing my settings, and then I will simply sync, auto sync, or copy and paste all of my develop settings to the 10 other photos that have the same issues.
One note on sharpening. It supposedly is set to a decent setting by default. Check out this article:
http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/04/whats_with_the_number_25.html
Doug

Camera settings vs. Aperture settings

I have noticed that Aperture reads my RAW files just fine but shows me a file with settings that are different from my camera settings. An example would be my Kelvin temperature. My camera can be set to 6700K and Aperture will show it as 5955K. How do I get Aperture to use my camera's settings?
Thanks,
Jeffrey

You can't, really.
I believe, though, that these numbers are somewhat up to interpretation as far as what the color temperature actually is. You will not get an exact temperature match, at least not right now, with Aperture.
Best results are typically to shoot a grey card or similar in a frame and use that to color balance your photos in post-processing. I tried using an ExpoDisc, both to set in camera and as a reference frame for later correction in Aperture -- and got results that were pretty much identical in the end.

How important are camera settings if you use ACR?

How important is it to properly adjust the settings on your camera when taking pictures if you can change white balance, exposure, etc. in ACR?
Just curious....

How important is it to properly adjust the settings on your camera when taking pictures if you can change white balance, exposure, etc. in ACR?
Just curious....
It is critical to get exposure right in the camera. If the dynamic range of the scene is less than that of the camera, you have some exposure latitude, but it is best to expose to the right so as to get a better signal to noise ratio. Some degree of overexposure can be corrected in ACR, but blown channels (the green usually blows first due to white balance) result in loss of data and the colors may not be accurate. The white balance set on the camera does not affect the raw data, but is merely stored as metadata. If there is no neutral reference in the scene (a WhiBal or similar card is better than a white T-shirt), the an accurate white balance may be hard to obtain. In this case, it is better to use a WB preset by taking a reading from a white balance card.
ACR ignores camera settings other than WB, so the contrast, saturation and tone curve set on the camera are of no significance.

I would like to add a new Canon camera profile to the RAW interface

Hi, I would like to add a new Canon camera profile to the RAW interface.
I have recently installed the new camera profile 'Studio Portrait' which i download from here:
http://www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/studio-portrait.html
When I open up a RAW files in Camera RAW, go to 'Camera Calibration', click on the drop down list called
'Camera Profile' I only see 'Adobe Standard, Faithful etc etc'.
My questions are, can i add the same camera profile i put in my camera, into a folder with in photoshop?
Or is photoshop reading the raw file and only seeing the default camera profiles?
If I could see the new camera profile listed it would help with work flow.
Best
JL-B
Please help, ive not had a good time waiting on the phone and trying to explain this to a live chat, hours have been wasted. Once i know the answer I can get back to the commission.

Are you following this
Apply a camera profile
To apply a camera profile, select it from the Camera Profile pop-up menu in the Camera Calibration tab of the Camera Raw dialog box. The Adobe Standard profile for a camera is named Adobe Standard. Camera Matching profiles include the prefix Camera in the profile name. The Camera Profile pop-up menu displays only profiles for your camera.
If the only profile in the Camera Profilemenu is Embedded, it means that you have selected a TIFF or JPEG image. Adobe Standard and Camera Matching profiles work only with raw images.
Note: If you have selected a raw file and Adobe Standardand Camera Matching profiles do not appear in the Camera Profilepop-up menu, download the latest Camera Raw update.

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