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April 4, 2026
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Lightroom Classic (macOS) fails to correctly reproduce Nikon Zf in-camera presets via Camera Flexible Color

  • April 4, 2026
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Hello,

Lightroom Classic 15.2.1 (on macOS 26.4 in my case) does not correctly reproduce Nikon Zf in-camera presets (my test is on custom presets).

In the Library module, the image matches the in-camera look because Lightroom is showing the embedded RAW preview. But in the Develop module, Lightroom switches to its own rendering and applies Camera Flexible Color, which produces colors that are clearly off compared with the Nikon rendering.

So although Lightroom appears to support this feature in principle, the current implementation is not accurate enough to be useful. The user is then left trying to reverse-engineer and manually correct the many settings changed by Camera Flexible Color.

As it stands, this feature is effectively broken/useless for Nikon Zf files.

Here is a side by side view of what is expected and shown correctly in the Library module (left), and what Lightroom’s Develop renders (right).

 

Thanks in advance for considering this bug report.

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johnrellis
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April 5, 2026

Adobe is much more likely to pay attention to such bug reports if you supply a couple of sample images showing the problem, allowing the developers to quickly reproduce the problem. You can attach the .nefs here using hte paper-clip button.