Panasonic G7 Colors with Camera RAW Just Wrong

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December 6, 2016
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I recently came back from photographing fall foliage and found that the RW2 raw files from my Panasonic G7 camera are not processing correctly. The reds in the leaves are almost fluorescent. I tried at home with some light red flowers and the result is the same. The out-of-camera jpeg files are fine, but the raw files in Lightroom are a mess (Camera Raw version 9.7). I have to adjust the hue in the red and/or orange channels significantly to even get close to the actual colors. When converted with Silkypix Developer or Piccure+ the files display just fine. Any suggestions appreciated.

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namechange25_02_2017

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Can you provide us with the sample files so that we can look at the issue and also which lightroom version are you using and on which OS ?

Thanks,

Bhavesh

McVey ImagesAuthor

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Lightroom CC 2015.7 release, Camera Raw 9.7, Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update, Dell UP2716D wide gamut monitor.

I've created a Dropbox account to post the files:

Original RAW https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68063651/P1040694.RW2

Original RAW exported as full size jpeg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68063651/CRAWexport.jpg which carries through the fluorescent colors.

In camera jpeg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68063651/InCamera.JPG which is pretty accurate color wise and matches the SilkyPix output.

As to camera profiles, I used the "Panasonic DMC-G7" built-in profile in Lightroom. I did create a custom camera profile with X-Rite Color Checker which produced identical results. So it is something happening in the Camera RAW processing that is causing the color shift.

For comparison, here is the same flower photo taken with an Olympus E-M5II camera:

Original Olympus RAW https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68063651/PC050006-2.ORF

Olympus in camera jpeg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68063651/PC050006-2.JPG

ssprengel

Inspiring

In general I agree that the colors are more saturated in the G7 using Adobe Standard compared to the in-camera JPG vs the other camera raw and jpg; however, the exposure and white-balance are quite a bit different between the two raw shots: 3350K and 1/8s for one and 4450K and 1/30s for the other, so it's hard to tell what is actually different between the cameras vs the lighting. One benefit the older Olympus has is Adobe has gone to the trouble of creating several other camera-match profiles, whereas the G7 only has Adobe Standard.

It would be helpful to have the two cameras set to the same exposure and white-balance and take a shot from the same position with the same general window lighting, so one right after the other without there being different amount of clouds and identical sun angle.

ManiacJoe

Inspiring

The first place to look is in the Camera Calibration panel. See if any of the camera profiles there work better for you than the one you are currently using (probably "adobe standard").

ssprengel

Inspiring

A discussion would be easier if we could look at an example raw file as well as a corresponding JPG as output from SilkyPix, with just the default processing in SP.

Upload both to somewhere like http://www.DropBox.com/ and post a public share link, here.

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