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yvondaigle
Inspiring
December 26, 2018
Question

Nikon Z6 raw files in LR

  • December 26, 2018
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When importing RAW files from Nikon Z6 into Lightroom Classic 8.1, Camera Raw 11.1, some settings are changed, such as contrast, shadow, saturation, chroma aberration etc. But it is not the same value to each file and only in RAW files not the files jpg and only with the Z6. I dont want Lightroom modify my RAW files. I never have that before.

Can you help me please.

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GoldingD
Legend
December 26, 2018

For the Nikon Z6 and Z7, and not for any other camera, the in camera settings are carried over into Lightroom and acted upon. Not just shutter speed, aperetur, and ISO, but all those various settings like film simulation (or whatever Nikon calls it), sharpness, noise reduction, WB, on and on....

Now, I do not know if a way to turn that off exists. But, I suspect to undo it, try click on the first entry in the history panel, reset, then apply a Lightroom general preset called zeroed. The bit about reset in the history panel is just to clean house and keep things simpiler

Zeroed changes all settings that you or Lightroom may have applied to the zero or default values. For example LR just loves to tweet sharpening a bit. But, I suspect these are values after LR applies the default profile. Zeroed will not change whatever the profile applied, for that you need to change the profile (best done first post processing step).

Next step would be to changer your profile from whatever defaults, to what you want, then move on in your workflow.

and yes, this is for the NEF

yvondaigle
Inspiring
December 26, 2018

I change the profile in the camera and it is the same. And I change the profile in LR and it is stay the same. Z6 & Z7 have the same issue

Look at this youtube: MAJOR Nikon Z7 ISSUE in Adobe Lightroom? - YouTube

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 27, 2018

So yvondaigle​ The answer to you original post question is as given by Per Berntsen​- just above-

1. Open one raw Z6/Z7 image in the Develop module.

2. Manually set all changed sliders to zero, or as YOU want them to be.

3. Goto menu:  Develop > Set Default settings..., and chose [Update to current settings.]

Now every raw file you Import from the Z6/Z7 will be reset to "zero" settings.

This is a method to set "Defaults" for any-and-every camera we use with Lightroom. It is one of the great features of Lightroom that every user can set defaults to make their photos look how they want, and NOT be 'forced' to accept the Adobe defaults.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
JP Hess
Inspiring
December 26, 2018

Lightroom applies default settings that have been established for each camera. If you don't like the default settings that have been set, then create your own default settings. If you want everything set to 0 then set everything accordingly and then set new default settings. Then, whenever you important new raw images or click on the reset button, those are the settings that will be applied to your images.

yvondaigle
Inspiring
December 26, 2018

Thank you for your reply.

I have another Nikon camera and a Sony and when I import the raw files in LR the files have not been changed. It is only the model Z and only the Raw files, not the jpg.

It is not only to change the values to 0, but there are some basic values that have been changed.

And even if I click Reset, nothing changes.

JP Hess
Inspiring
December 26, 2018

Then apparently the default settings for the new camera are not acceptable and need to be modified. Clicking the reset button is only going to reset the image to the default settings. You are going to need to modify the default settings in order for the reset button to accomplish what you need the button to do.