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L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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June 6, 2019
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Something wrong with Adobe DNG Converter and Lighroom

  • June 6, 2019
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I noticed this issue in a smaller quantity last week but now it seems even more. Yesterday I made a picture of a bunny and after converting the image with Adobe DNG Converter (version 11.0.0.61 at first and updated to 11.3 and still same problem) and the green were overly saturated compared to the original .ORF file from Olympus E-M1 Mark I and that subjects with a green background behind them seem to lose the texture and colour like the demosaic gets confused about what's where:

W0lfy - 060519 - Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark I - 9398.JPG

Converted .ORF to .DNG (Full Size JPEG Preview and Fast Loading Data)

Screenshot (87).png

Screenshot of the original .ORF file opened with Microsoft Photos

I imported the .ORF file in Lightroom with 1:1 Preview and I still get the same problem:

There's a hole in his ear.

I noticed similar issues on one of my bird in flight image were under the wing there was a green colour cast and the eye was glowing green, the subject was behind a tree and the size of the bird was very small in the frame (it was about 50 meters away, maybe more).

I am very confused about why is this happening. For now, I have to stop converting to DNG but worse is I can't trust Adobe Lightroom right now to do my edits and I shoot only RAW.

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    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    June 6, 2019

    First impression is some setting in DNG converter is not at default, something in WB? perhaps in HSL?

    Not at all familiar if the DNG converter will read your cameras metadata and pass that along as a mod, as in some in camera setting, probably not.

    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    June 6, 2019

    davidg36166309  wrote

    First impression is some setting in DNG converter is not at default, something in WB? perhaps in HSL?

    WB or HSL in the DNG converter?????

    Anyway, DNG or not, no one should expect the image to match in LR and Microsoft Photos.

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
    Tony_See
    Tony_See
    Inspiring
    June 6, 2019

    Have any of these image results been edited in the Develop module?

    It may also help to post your exact Lightroom and OS version thanks . . .

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    L0n3Gr3yW0lfAuthor
    Participant
    June 6, 2019

    No changes have been made to the images, just converted and/or imported in Lightroom.

    Windows 10 Pro Version 1809

    Adobe DNG Converter 11.3

    Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8.3.1

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    L0n3Gr3yW0lfAuthor
    Participant
    June 6, 2019

    AFAICT this may be due to a changed processing default that LR is applying, or to inadvertent editing, or something awry in the content, or something awry in the software's presentation of the content.

    To check, make a Virtual Copy then click Reset in the lower right of Develop. If the image now reverts to what you would normally expect an unprocessed image to look like, then you were seeing some editing that was inadvertently applied at import or later (e.g. while Auto Sync was active(*), or by a preset, or by Paste / Sync, or whatever).

    Next hold Shift - Reset changes to Reset (Adobe) - and click that button to apply standard neutral (factory default) processing.

    If THIS now makes the image revert to what you would normally expect, then there is in place some (unwanted) user customisation to the processing defaults that are applied to such an image at import or on (standard) Reset. That would be cleared by re-saving new defaults or else by deleting this user customised camera default file from the relevant ACR settings folder, so as to force LR to fall back on the factory-default initial processing instead.

    (*) If you've got multiple images highlighted and Auto Sync is on, any clone or heal spot applied to one image will also be added to the corresponding place of other images - regardless whether that may happen to overlay a rabbit's ear, or whatever. Same for any other adjustment made.


    _6058003.ORF?dl=0

    This is the original .ORF file copied straight from the memory card. When I open it in Windows Photos, ACDSee Photo Ultimate the ears of the bunny look fine, meaning not with a green hole in them. If I open this file with any Adobe product, tried: Windows Photoshop CC, Lightroom Classic CC, Lightroom Mobile, iPad Lightroom CC there is a visible green hole in the top of both ears.

    _6058003.DNG?dl=0

    This is converted .DNG file with Adobe DNG Converter 11.0.0.61 AND 11.3 (after updating, the same issue) with Full-Size JPEG Preview and Embedded Fast Loading Data selected, nothing else applied to the file. When I open in any software that can open images (including all the above) the green hole in the bunny ears is visible.

    No editing changes have been made with any software, tried Resetting Changes to no effect, also the file history I selected was Import and still shows that hole.

    I am going to try and replicate this issue in other images with my Olympus E-M1, with a different memory card, subjects behind a green background and bracket ISO (maybe a High ISO problem where the colour bleeds or error in demosaicing).

    I am less disturbed about a slightly oversaturate green colour of Adobe's Colour Profiles and more than in Adobe software the file shows me missing parts of the subject that does not show up in other software, the back of the camera or that I remember the rabbit missing chunks of his/her ears.

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