Auto Apply Camera Matching Profiles?

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August 15, 2018
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Hello All,

I have a Fuji X-H1. I shoot in raw only (raw compressed lossless).

The camera has features to simulate film types.

These film types are included in Lightroom at the top of the basic panel, clicking the four squares and going down to Camera Matching.

Is there a way when I import my raw files into Lightroom, to have Lightroom automatically apply the appropriate Camera Matching profile to each of my photographs?

For instance, I may shoot one photo in Black and White, the next in Cinema. I would light Lightroom to apply the Camera Matching black and white profile to the image I shot in black and white, the Cinema profile to the image I shot in Cinema, so that I do not have to go in and do all that manually later on.

Thanks.

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

I don’t think that is possible. You can change the camera defaults so a particular camera profile will always be assigned, but you can’t do that based on camera settings because Lightroom does not read those settings.

JohanElzenga

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I don’t think that is possible. You can change the camera defaults so a particular camera profile will always be assigned, but you can’t do that based on camera settings because Lightroom does not read those settings.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Chris LipscombeAuthor

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I strongly suspect that the information is recorded in the raw file somewhere. I remember in my Nikon days, Capture NX2 would automatically apply the different profiles for the raw files when importing, but Lightroom never did. I was hoping that after several years, LR would have that option somewhere, maybe buried in settings. It wasn't done with Nikon at the time because if I remember correctly, that information was encrypted in the raw file or something.

Adobe did do a great job recreating the different film settings from the camera, and they are listed in the program, just not automatically applied during import as the "starting" point.

Perhaps I will go find the suggestions area in Adobe and send that in as a suggestion. If the film information is recorded in the metadata or somewhere in the raw file, then the programming required to read and then apply Adobes version of that rendition I don't believe will be hard to do.

Thanks for replying.

Chris

JP Hess

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You can make the suggestion, but that is the heart of the problem and why it is necessary for Adobe to create support for each individual camera model. Those in-camera settings are unique to each camera manufacturer's raw file format. And because it is a proprietary raw format it is necessary for Adobe to disregard all of those in-camera settings. The profile setting is one of those in-camera settings that is ignored by EVERY camera manufacturer and will be ignored until they camera manufacturers agree on a common raw format. And do you think that will ever happen?

To do what you are wanting Adobe did do, they would have to choose one specific camera model and choose to read all of the in-camera settings for that one model. Should it be yours, or mine, or the one model that the most prolific professional photographer in the world uses? Then the rest of us would have to just stand on the outside looking in wishing that we could have that same support.

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