{"id":1747,"date":"2011-04-16T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-16\/1747"},"modified":"2011-04-16T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:41:27","slug":"important-note-for-nikon-d3d700d300-shooters-who-use-lightroom-or-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-16\/1747","title":{"rendered":"Important Note for Nikon D3\/D700\/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAlmost Lost<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

DEC 2011 UPDATE<\/b>: the “v3” camera profiles mentioned below have now been supersceeded by “v4” profiles mentioned here<\/a>, available with Lr3.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you shoot with a Nikon D3, D700, or D300, and use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you'll want to know about the\n“Camera v3” beta camera-calibration profiles described in this Adobe-forum thread<\/a>.\n(The actual profiles are in this ZIP file<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n

This is important because in some cases, the standard\n“Camera” profiles that come with Lightroom ACR fail miserably\nfor these three cameras. For example, consider this crop from the photo\nabove:<\/p>\n\n

\nMottled Yuck!<\/span>\n“Camera Standard” profile that comes with Lightroom 3<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Those mottled magenta splotches are not on the flower; they're a bug<\/span> in Lightroom's camera profiles for the D3\/D700\/D300.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

(The rest of this post is written from a Lightroom<\/span> perspective, but the concepts apply to Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw<\/i>\nmodule as well.)<\/p>\n\n

Lightroom's “camera profiles<\/b>” are\ninternal recipes for how to convert the camera's raw hardware-specific\nsensor data into a color<\/span> image. The camera<\/span> itself has this built in as part\nof its JPEG engine, but that's not used if you shoot raw because the whole\npoint of shooting raw is to give you control over the conversion process\nlater. Thus, each raw converter (Lightroom, Aperture, ACR, Nikon View NX, etc.)\nhas the latitude to make the conversion itself, as it sees fit.<\/p>\n\n

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In Lightroom's case, it gives you a choice<\/span> from a number<\/span> of “recipes”\n(profiles) for how the basic conversion to color image data is to be done. In the Develop<\/span> module, at the bottom of the right-side panel, you'll find\nthe\nCamera Calibration<\/b> section, and a\n“Profile” selector that\ncontains items such as\n“Adobe Standard”,<\/span>\n“Camera Vivid”,<\/span>\n“Camera Standard”,<\/span>\n“Camera Portrait”, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The ones with “Camera” in the name try to mimic the\nparticular look and feel of the camera's own JPEG engine, with\n“Camera Standard” obviously being the profile to match what the\ncamera does when it's not in any kind of special-look mode.<\/p>\n\n

I think “Adobe Standard” is the one that Lightroom uses if you\ndon't tell it otherwise, but it's so generic and its results so “blah” that\nas a matter<\/span> of course I apply<\/span>\n“Camera Standard”<\/span>\nautomatically to all my\nimages as part of the Lightroom import process. This has worked great for me for\nyears, but every so often... maybe every 5,000–10,000 photos or so,\nI'll come across a situation<\/span> like that shown above, where there are clearly errors\nin how Lightroom is processing the image.<\/p>\n\n

The magnitude of the problem seems closely\ntied to the white-balance setting, so sometimes it was easy enough to make go away....\nbut sometimes not, and the photo above is one such example. It happened<\/span> so rarely that I didn't<\/span> bother to investigate, but I really<\/span> wanted to post this\nflower because it's a clear<\/span> candidate for membership in the\nVoigtl\u00e4nder “Exploring the Edge of Creamy Macro Bokeh<\/a>” club. I'd come across<\/span> the flower by the side of the road during\nthe “Mountain Play with Monet and Friends<\/a>”\nouting a week<\/span> ago.<\/p>\n\n

So, I asked<\/span> around and was directed to the Adobe forum linked above, and voila<\/i>...<\/p>\n\n

\nSmooth as a Baby's<\/span> Bottom<\/span>\nwith the new “Camera Standard” v3 Beta Profile\n<\/div>\n\n

All the various “Camera” profiles (Camera Vivid, Camera Standard, etc.)\ncould suffer from the mottled-color problem, at least for Nikon D3\/D700\/D300<\/span>\nhardware, but it seems it's been completely fixed with these v3 profiles.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n
Vertical Desktop-Background Versions<\/b>\n\n\n1050×<\/span>1680<\/a>  ·  1200×<\/span>1920<\/a>  ·  1600×<\/span>2560<\/a><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

For context, here's a wider view, showing how the sun is shining\ndirectly on the rear of the blossom, thus causing it to glow from within\nwhen viewed from the top...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/8, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I don't know what kind of tree it is, but it had a lot<\/span> of buds in various stages...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n
Desktop-Background Versions<\/b>\n\n\nStandard: 1024×<\/span>768<\/a>  ·  1440×<\/span>1080<\/a>  ·  1600×<\/span>1200<\/a><\/small>     <\/span>\nWidescreen:  1280×<\/span>800<\/a>  ·  1680×<\/span>1050<\/a>  ·  1920×<\/span>1200<\/a>  ·  2560×<\/span>1600<\/a><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

I was very happy to get these profiles, but I'm not ready to switch to\nthem for all my images. On the plus<\/span> side they don't suffer from this\nrare-but-major splotch problem, but on the minus side, they seem too bright\nfor my taste. The initial<\/span> post in the Adobe thread says to set exposure to\n-½EV, but even when I do<\/span> that, I feel details<\/span> are lost in the\nhighlights. This is just a gut<\/span> feeling and I need<\/span> to do more research,\nincluding reading the entire forum thread. However, it's important for\nD3\/D700\/D300<\/span> shooters to know these profiles are available, so I wanted<\/span> to\npost about them right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you shoot with a Nikon D3, D700, or D300, and use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you'll want to know about the \"Camera v3\" beta camera-calibration profiles described in this Adobe-forum thread. (The actual profiles are in this ZIP file.)<\/p>

This is important because in some cases, the standard \"Camera\" profiles that come with Lightroom ACR fail miserably for these three cameras. For example, consider this crop from the photo above:<\/p>

Those mottled magenta splotches are not on the flower; they're a bug in Lightroom's camera profiles for the D3\/D700\/D300.<\/p>

(The rest of this post is written from a Lightroom [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,8,13,6,4,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

All the images above are crops... here's the full frame, which might make a nice<\/span>\nvertical desktop image<\/a>...<\/p>\n\n