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July 21, 2025
Question

R5 CR3 file color profile issues in Lightroom Classic. Why are my old CR2 files looking better?

  • July 21, 2025
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I've owned an R5 not long after it released and since then I've had color profile issues with lightroom classic and my CR3 files.  I've had the common issue of RAW files looking washed out using the Adobe Standard color profile so I had ended up switching to Fidelity a few years ago which helped improve the images but they still never looked quite right and I just dealt with it being that way.  More recently I tried experimenting with the newer Camera matching profiles and I didn't like the way they looked either.  

 

Recently I started looking at my older images when I was using a 6D and I couldn't believe how great the colors and contrast looked in my photos.  So as a test I setup both cameras and tested the 6D using the Adobe Standard profile (where it looked great with wonderful contrast, colors, and skin tones.) and the R5 using every profile available profile and none of them looked as nice as the 6D with the default Adobe Standard profile.  I could get it to come sort of close with a bit of work using the Adobe Color profile and tweaking some sliders and the temperature but it takes a bit of work depending on the colors in the photo etc.  

 

Does anyone have any help with this issue?  If the 6D wasn't as painful to use in comparison in terms of auto focus I feel like I'd be better off using that camera given the results and it makes me feel quite a bit depressed given the price I paid for an R5 when it released. 

My monitor is calibrated with an x-rite colorimeter and I use that profile for editing. I shoot RAW photos, everything in Adobe is updated and I'm using Windows 11. 

 

For the Images below the 6D Cr2 files are on the left and the R5 Cr3 files are on the right. 

 

image 1: Adobe Standard vs Adobe Standard

image 2: Adobe Standard vs Fidelity 

image 3: Adobe Standard vs Camera Standard

image4: Adobe Standard vs Adobe Color (best match with some tweaks).

3 replies

Participant
August 7, 2026

Did you ever find a fix for this? I find the same with CR3 and don't use my mirrorless because of it, but surely there must be a fix.

Community Expert
August 7, 2026

Please give us more and detailed informations about your issue including your system infos.

Post also a screenshot that shows the problem.

I also work with CR3 file from a Canon R5 and I don’t see any of the described issue in the original post.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
ButtermanAuthor
Participant
July 21, 2025

I forgot to add that what I dislike about most of my images using all the R5 is that most profiles are either completely washed out or they are too contrasty and saturated using many of the color profile options.  The CR2 files felt right straight out of the gate with Adobe Standard.