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April 26, 2025
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P: Update Needed for Nikon Zf Flexible Color Profile (Camera Matching) in Lightroom

  • April 26, 2025
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Hi, Nikon has released FW 2.0 for the Nikon Zf two weeks ago, which finally enables Flexible Color on the camera (similar to the Z6III). This enables users to create "recipes"/LUTs so to speak within NX Studio, and export them as .NP3 files onto the Zf/Z6III/Z50II. 

 

Upon importing the JPEG + RAWs to Lightroom (as of the latest release 14.3), there is no "Flexible Color" Camera Matching Profile on the Zf like there is on the Z6III. Please see the attached screenshots for your reference. I believe this should be fixed/added via an update to Camera Raw.

 

As someone who is 95% satisfied with my "custom .NP3 flexible color settings" on my Zf to achieve the images I want, there's only a slightly edit I want to apply to the RAWs. But, importing them into Lightroom automatically applies Camera Standard (and not Flexible Color, like it does on the Z6III). As expected, this results in a very different look and strong color shift since it isn't saving the Flexible Color information.

 

It would be greatly appreciated if this came to an update to Camera Raw.

 

 

 

10 replies

Participant
August 19, 2025

The update was released, now the list includes Camera Flexible Color. But the color does not match the color in the camera - the position of the sliders is different from the usual, the camera profile is flexible camera - but it seems that Lightroom does not recognize the camera profile correctly. Is this planned to be fixed? Otherwise, what is the point of this functionality? I specifically looked for camera profiles to optimize the processing process, while working with RAW and now I just do not have an adequate way to apply my favorite profiles, the easiest way is to photograph a color checker with different presets and convert them through the DNG profile editor into camera profiles, but don't you think that this is some kind of hellishly complicated method?

Participant
June 26, 2025

Thanks for the update! Will this be rolling out to LrC/LR in a future update soon? I saw that the new .DCP profile had been placed in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Nikon Z f,  but I couldn't find/select it in LR, LrC, or Photoshop.

Known Participant
June 26, 2025

Hi Rikk, thank you for this awesome update! Just wanted to ask when can we expect to see this work in Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile? Thanks!

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 26, 2025

See: https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/camera-raw-17-4-1-is-released-with-support-for-additional-cameras-and-nikon-profiles/td-p/15390235 


Expect to see the update in Lightroom in the round of planned updates. I am sorry, but I cannot yet share the exact date. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
May 18, 2025
Participant
May 18, 2025

Latest release of Adobe Camera Raw (v 17.3.1) on May 8th did not contain this Z f flexible color profile. Please update this!

Participant
April 28, 2025

yes!

Known Participant
April 27, 2025

This would be amazing! Especially since it already works for the z6iii, there shouldn't be a huge issue in supporting the ZF. Please Adobe!

marcelm74107100
Participant
April 26, 2025

Yes please!

Participant
April 26, 2025

Agreed! I've also been waiting (patiently) for the Flexible Color profile for the Zf. The Zf community has exploded over these NP3/flexible colors in firmware 2.0, so having the profile come to Lightroom would be the next big step!