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February 12, 2019
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P: Support for Canon .CR3 Camera-matching Profiles

  • February 12, 2019
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There is currently zero support for .CR3 camera color profiles in Lightroom... especially since the newer Canon cameras use a .CR3 format... making it difficult to get work done. Only slightly surprised that this wasnt planned for beforehand since there still isnt a 64bit version of the adobe programs that i can use on the most current version of MacOS.

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Participant
December 12, 2020

When will the camera profiles for the Canon 90d become available in LRC, LR and Camera Raw, please

johnrellis
Legend
December 8, 2020

A number of people have reported satisfaction with profiles purchased from colorfidelity.com ($15). Unfortunately, they don't currently support the 250D.   Since it doesn't look like LR will provide camera-matching profiles for the newer Canon cameras any time soon, you might consider sending Colorfidelity an email request for 250D support.

Inspiring
December 7, 2020

Sorry, I forgot to clarify that I meant editing the .cr3 based on the embedded Jpg-Preview with Faststone Image Viewer.

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
December 6, 2020

To clarify/expand: LR can edit a JPEG but if the document is raw, it edits the raw data not the JPEG preview inside that are. As John states: LR only edits that raw data.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
johnrellis
Legend
December 6, 2020

"Yet I can edit that .cr3 based on the embedded JPG-preview."

I'm not sure what you're describing. LR only edits the raw data -- Develop ignores the JPEG preview. 

Inspiring
December 6, 2020

That is something I already suspected, having read several threads about the topic when I was looking for a solution 😉
Yet I can edit that .cr3 based on the embedded JPG-preview with Faststone Image Viewer.
But if I get it right that's just like editing a JPG then and doesn't have the quality advantages of editing the RAW in lightroom?

johnrellis
Legend
December 6, 2020

"A free image viewer like FastStone Image Viewer ist totally capable of showing the .cr3 correctly (just like the camera) and exporting it to a .jpg that looks exactly the same."

Faststone is showing you the JPEG preview embedded in the .cr3 by the camera -- it isn't rendering the raw itself.

Inspiring
December 5, 2020

The missing camermatching-profiles for .cr3 are bugging me a lot as well and I hope Adobe will add more support for newer models soon, as they have promised in another thread.

I found the following link to be handy as it shows whether there are cameramatching profiles available for generally supported Cameras:

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

I use the Canon EOS 250D which came out in April 2019. There are no cameramatching-profiles for it yet and to use the built-in Adobe-profiles is unfortunately no solution as they look horrible in comparison to the camera standard. (way darker, way less vivid - the whole histogram is mal-adjusted)
I searched for a work-around countless hours but I found none. Replicating the original look of the photo, as the camera (and for example FastStoneViewer) show it, in Lightroom Classic is nigh impossible and also a bit different for every single photo.

I found two things to be strange about the whole story:
There are actually cameras with .cr3 format that have nicely working cameramatching profiles in Lightroom, for example the EOS M50. It came out in 2018. This undermines Adobe's statement that the format itself is too complicated.
A free image viewer like FastStone Image Viewer ist totally capable of showing the .cr3 correctly (just like the camera) and exporting it to a .jpg that looks exactly the same. I find it irritating that an expensive program like Lightroom can't do the same.

Inspiring
December 4, 2020

Canon's newer cameras that use CR3 raw format has no "Camera Matching" color profiles available within Lightroom. It makes it very very difficult to work with files at the same time that came from different Canon cameras. Files from my newer cameras that use CR3 format (Canon M50 and R6) behave completely different in Lightroom from the files of my older cameras (1DX, 5D III, 6D). Matching the raw parameters when these older and newer cameras used side by side parallel is a pain.

There is almost perfect transparency when when editing their files in Lihtroom when  i use my older cameras parallel among each other (2 cameras with different lenses on a sport event and the third is a remote camera). But when i try to mix R6 or M50 with the newer ones, colors are completely different. I assume that the reason is that only Adobe color profiles are available. Lightroom sliders also behave/react very differently with the onder and newer cameras and very difficult to match their edited "look" visually.
I assume that if there would be Camera Matching color profiles available, that would solve this issue and it would provide a common editing starting point and common slider/parameter response of their raw between older and newer Canon camera models.

Canon support gave me the information that they provided every neccessary information to Adobe to solve this problem and provide Camera Marching color profiles in Lightroom Classic.

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DNPhotoAuthor
Participating Frequently
November 26, 2020

Oh, I got it sorted out ;). You've been a dismal help. Please go stroke your internet ego elsewhere.