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VSCO profiles with newer (unsupported) cameras

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 31, 2019
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Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to make VSCO profiles & Lightroom Classic CC/ACR work with newer cameras that have yet to be updated by VSCO? Especially given the near-discontinuation of VSCO I think many would be interested in finding a workaround for this. I've tried a number of different things but no luck.

To be clear my problem isn't with presets but rather the VSCO camera profiles.

Things I've tried:

1. renaming copies of existing VSCO Nikon profiles with the name of the new camera (i.e. Nikon d810>>>Nikon Z7 & Nikon d810>>>Nikon Z 7)

2. Importing profiles via the dialogs in Lightroom Classic CC and ACR in PS CC 2019

3. deleting the Index.dat file in the CameraProfiles folder

4. Moving profiles from CameraProfiles into the CameraSettings folder

Incidentally, I'm on a Mac running LR Classic CC 8.1. I'm specifically working with Nikon Z 7 files but I imagine that the solution would be essentially the same for any given camera.

Thanks in advance.

vsco lightroom z7 z 7

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felixfoto123

Participating Frequently

Hi Guys,

I found a new way that also works for editing camera names further than just editing a "3" to a "4" with no hassle:

This is for MAC:

1. download dcpTool from app store (its 9.99USD but worth the effect imo)

2. put all the dcps from older camera (in my case GFX50S) into a new folder

3. dcpTool batch generates decompiled versions of the dcp files as .xml files in the same folder

4. delete the "old" .dcp files

5. open the .xml with Dreamweaver or even texteditor, find this field:

<UniqueCameraModelRestriction>Fujifilm GFX 50S</UniqueCameraModelRestriction>

here you can just change the text (in my case to >Fujifilm GFX 50S II<)

6. recompile the .xml to .dcp with dcpTools again

7. put the newly compiled .xml in your cameraraw/cameraprofiles folder and you're golden

Also: if you're unsure what the accurate text for you camera model is, just find a .dcp for your camera in the "Adobe Standard" subfolder of CameraProfiles and decompile it as well to take a look at its xml and the text field of UniqueCameraModelRestriction

enjoy!

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sebastianf54853879

Participant

Works like you said but the only problem is with tint! everything looks so red so i had to reduce it at the beginning to -30 to get standard tones with my presets. Do you know why?

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cyprianl87112944

Participating Frequently

Hi,

have no idea, mine were all normal... Did you take an original vsco file,
or some profile, you made from the color checker? The home made profiles
tend to have this problem you described.

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bethanngreenberg

Participant

Did you get it to work? I am having the same problem as i shot with a newer body this weekensd. My D4s can use my VSCO presets no problem, my Nikonz6ii wont play them and it says "profile missing"

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Cyp5C39

Participant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMNemLondeQ

This worked for me. I have edited a Z7 raw, which I downloaded as I do not have Z7 🙂

Just used a d750 profile and replaced the line `d750` with `Z 7 `- important to put a space between and after. Worked like a charm. I assume it will work for Z6 as well.

hejmickey

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Great find there, thanks for this. I've tried this for my NIKON Z7 II using both with and without a space "Nikon Z 7_2" and "Nikon Z 7_2 "

Do you have any clues as to what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

DdeGannes

Community Expert

LrC, only added support for the Z6 ii and Z7 ii, in version 10.1.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

santiv93

Participant

Same happens for me with the Sony a6300. Have you been able to find a solution for this?

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manuelh41517462

Participant

I have the same problems as you with my Nikon Z6.

Have you found a solution to get the camera profiles for Nikon Z7 or Z6 for the VSCO presets?

Thanks in advance.

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bethanngreenberg

Participant

same! Help, lol. my d4s reads them no problem, the new Z6 does not.

GoldingD

Legend

Do you mean that when you use them they fail. Or do you mean you cannot find them?

Followup

Not being a holder of any VSCO products, I went and visited their website. I see they are discontinuing desktop products, focusing on the Mobile market. (VSCO Film Discontinued FAQ – The VSCO Help Center )

I also see, or perhaps better to see no way to download any presets be the profile or develop. Neither free nor paid. Apparently if you previously paid, a way exists to get them before they go away completly.

I also see, that these profile presets are in fact camera specific and camera matching (from the article about discontinuing I think).

So you may be SOL???

kartik.playon

Participant

Got a way just did it right now.

So we'll have multiple camera profiles for every camera.

Extract Nikon D90 profiles, everyone of them, make a copy of those somewhere.

Rename them from D90 to Z6 for your convenience (this step has nothing to do with the end result).

Download a hex code editor( I am using Frhed on windows)

Open 1 profile at a time, change the name from D90 to Z 6 (Z 'space' 6).

Refer this video and you'll get the idea.

https://youtu.be/bMNemLondeQ

NOTE: Make sure you replace 'D','9'&(0) in D90 with 'Z','space'&'6' for Z 6

Thank me later.

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bethanngreenberg

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I am having the same problem as i shot with a newer body this weekensd. My D4s can use my VSCO presets no problem, my Nikonz6ii wont play them and it says "profile missing". But i wont to keep using them for the d4s a well, so do i just copy and make a new one?

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