I understand there is a problem with Windows 10 update to version 1809.  Some people have lost data after the update.  I delayed auto update for 35 days to allow Microsoft to resolve the problem.  You are the first I have seen with monitor calibration update issues after the update.  I suggest you inform Microsoft of the issue so they and resolve it.  ... View more

I would also like to know.  The only option you have to process the RAW files now is with Nikon Capture NXD, which does support the RAW file.  Nikon Capture NXD is a free download.  ... View more

With Lightroom 6.13 open, I just clicked on Help > Updates.  When it said update was available, I just clicked to update it and it downloaded and installed the update.  ... View more

There is not a one to one correlation between Lightroom white balance values and in camera values.  I don't believe there is an industry standard specification for white balance.  If you want a specific value set in Lightroom for white balance I suggest you select all the images you want to set, turn on auto sync, input the value for white balance, then turn auto sync off.  ... View more

If I understand you correctly, when you open each image in Lightroom the "As Shot" white balance for all 11 images is 4650K with Tint = 5.  The default camera profile in Lightroom is Adobe Standard, but you can select any of the other profiles available and you will still get the same white balance numbers.  Lightroom does not read what camera profile you selected in the camera. Lightroom does read the white balance data and it determines what the Adobe equivalent is for the value you selected in the camera.  If you purchase 3rd party DNG profiles for you camera or generate some using x-Rite Passport software you may get different white balance values. ... View more

The "As Shot" white balance is what the camera saved for the white balance value.  The actual numbers used by RAW processing software for the "As Shot" value is a function of the RAW processing software and camera profile used by the software.  I shoot using a Nikon camera and have compared a lot of images processed by Nikon software and Adobe software where I used the Camera matching profile with the Adobe software.  The "As Shot" white balance used in the Adobe software did not match what the Nikon software used, but color in the Nikon processed image and the Adobe processed image from the same RAW file match.  When I compare camera profiles I process about 50 RAW files with both Nikon and Adobe software using the camera matching profile with the Adobe software and the "As Shot" white balance in both.  I name the images so when I put them in the same file the Nikon and Adobe processed images from the same RAW file are next to each other.  I turn off lens correction in both so no corrections are applied for the lens.  I compare them by running a slide show.  When the slide show switches from the Nikon processed image to the Adobe processed image it's difficult to see any changes.  This shows that the "As Shot" values used by Adobe is what's required to get the same colors in the image. I have also generated custom camera profiles for Adobe software using X-Rite Passport software.  When white balance is set to "As Shot" in the Adobe software and I change the camera profile from one of the Adobe profiles to the Passport profile the "As Shot" values will change is some cases.  This shows that the "As Shot" white balance is a function of the camera profile. I suggest you process a RAW file using both Canon and Adobe software and use the Camera Matching profile with the Adobe software and set White Balance to the Kelvin value used by the Canon software.  Compare the two images to see if they match.  Then do the same with Adobe software using the "As Shot" values for white balance.  I think you will get a much closer match when the Adobe software is set to "As Shot" for white balance.  I assume your goal is to get matching colors in the Canon and Adobe processed images. ... View more

Lightroom only has Adobe Standard for the camera profile used to convert the RAW file.   What profile was used to convert with the other software?  I suspect this is a major contributor to the difference between the two conversions.  ... View more

The latest ACR release for Photoshop CS6 is ACR 8.3.  ACR 8.3 in Photoshop CS6 will not have all the capabilities of ACR 8.3 in Photoshop CC, but it will have support for all the new cameras.  This is the first time Adobe has made an ACR update that works in a previous version of Photoshop.  ... View more

I find a download for "Adobe DNG Converter 7.2", but no Camera RAW 7.2 download.  I never use the DNG converter, so don't download that.  Does this download contain Camera RAW 7.2? What's the problem Adobe? ... View more

ACR 7.2 has not been released by Adobe, that's why you don't find it at the normal location.  ACR 7.2 Release Candidate is available from Adobe Labs.  Release Candidates are early releases so user can check it out and report errors to Adobe for correction before the production release.  It was available from Adobe Labs on August 27, 2012.  Go to http://labs.adobe.com/downloads Then click on Photoshop Camera RAW 7.2 under Digital Imaging.  You can install this the regular way and use it until the Production Release is available, which will just replace the Release Candidate when you install it.  ... View more

Here is a list of IPS monitors: http://http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/s-ips-lcd-list.php I think an LED backlight would be good since no warm up time is required.  You need to plan of getting a calibrator for your monitor - I use the Eye One Display and it works great.  I have a 24 inch HP IPS monitor and find it very good.  ... View more

I tried re-installing ACR 6.7 Release Candidate and even thouth it said complete the D800 profiles were not there.  I then installed DNG Converter 6.7 Release Candidate (I had not installed it earlier) and that did load the D800 profiles for ACR 6.7 Release Candidate in CS5. Thanks for the input. ... View more

I have ACR 6.7 Release Candidate installed in CS5 and it will open a D800 NEF file, but the only profile avaialble is named "Matrix".  Where are the normal camera profiles?  I also have Photoshop CS6 Beta installed on the same computer and I installed it after I installed ACR 6.7 Release Candidate.  I think other D800 camera profiles were availalbe before I installed CS6 Beta.  Did installing CS6 Beta delete the D800 camera profiles?  I have a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit computer and have both 32bit and 64bit installations of both CS5 and CS6 Beta.  I also had Lightroom 4 Beta installed and uninstalled it after 3/31/12 and do not have the production release of Lightroom 4.  I don't plan on installing Lightroom - like Photoshop, Bridge, and ACR better.  ... View more

Thanks Eric.  Any forecast when the new DNG Profile Editor will be avaialble? ... View more

Can you use the DNG Profile Editor and the technique explaned in Tutorial 2 to generate a D2X Mode 1, 2, or 3 profile for a camera that does not have a D2X profile to match one that does?  D2X profiles exist for the D700, so follow Tutorial 2 to generate one for the D4.  I assume this will required the unreleased DNG Profile editor since the existing one does not work for the new profiles.  ... View more

Vit, thanks for the profiles.  I checked them out versus NX2 and get very good agreement.  ... View more

Vit, thanks for the offer.  You are correct, I don't use all of the profiles.  I don't use Standard at all.  My priority on profiles is: 1. Neutral, 2. Portrait, and 3. D2X Mode 2. Neutral is what I use as the default in ACR.  ... View more

Vit, I downloaded your version of the D700 Standard v4 profile and compared it with conversions of the same NEF files using ACR 6.6 with your Standard v4 (NX2 Standard aRGB v4) profile and NX2 using Standard profile.  I get excellent agreement between the two conversions.  I had noticed the difference in shadows when comparing conversions between ACR 6.6 Camera Standard v4 and NX2 Standard,  this difference is not there with your profile.  Do you plan on generating v4 profiles for the other 7 profiles for the D700?  If not, is this something I should be able to do? ... View more

I also ran a test with ACR 6.6 tone curve set to linear and the parametric curve set to values that give close to Medium Contrast and that works the same with the Action and Open button.  ... View more

Vit, I have identified what caused ACR 6.5 not to match ACR 6.6 for D700 NEF when using Portrait v2 profile or any other Profile.  I use a Photoshop Action from Bridge to process RAW files because I am generally processing an entire folder of images.  I discovered that with ACR 6.6 I don't get the same results if I use an Action rather than just click the open button in ACR and then save from Photoshop.  With ACR 6.5 the results are identical using the Action vs the open button and save from Photoshop.  If I use the Image Processor from Bridge with ACR 6.6 I get the same results as using the open button in ACR 6.6 and save from Photoshop. When I use the Photoshop Action that I saved, images processed with ACR 6.6 have the same characteristics I get with a Linear Tone curve even though I have the Medium Contrast Tone curve selected in ACR 6.6. I don't understand why ACR 6.6 works correctly with the Image Processor, but not with a Photoshop Action.  ACR 6.5 works correctly with either the Image Processor, or the Photoshop Action.  My normal way to process RAW files is select the images in Bridge, then click Tools > Photoshop > Batch > select the action and folder to save images > OK. Anyone else have this problem with ACR 6.6?  ... View more

I also do vignette removal in Camera RAW and did not expect to see a problem, but using vignette in photomerge solve the issue.  ... View more

I use Camera RAW in CS5 and would like relative adjustments as well as relative preset capability added to ACR and Lightroom. I would like this for all 11 parameters in the basic panel of Camera RAW. This would speed up adjusting images. I would make presets that allow me to increase or decrease each parameter by a fixed delta. Some of these would include adjusting multiple parameters at the same time like this example - increase contrast by 20 units and decrease saturation by 5 units. ... View more

Noel, I use Photomerge in CS5 (64 Bit) to create panorama images.  I noticed a problem in a clear blue sky where I could barley see where the image stitch was located.  I could see it easier if I opened curves and moved the left end of the curve to the center which increased contrast.  I was able to solve this problem by clicking on the "vignette removal" box in the panorama setup screen.  Have you noticed any of these type problems? My flow is a little different.  I run Photomerge from Bridge with NEF files selected.  I select the nef files in Bridge, then click "Tools > Photoshop >Photomerge".  This will give you the Photomerge box in Photoshop.  I then select cylindrical, check all three boxes at the bottom, and click OK.  Photoshop will then open the NEF files into Photoshop and proceed with the panorama.  When the panorama is complete, I click on "merge visible" which removes the thin white lines, use image rotation if necessary, crop, and flatten.  With this approach you do not have to save large files of the individual shots.   ... View more

Vit, I made no changes to the contrast when I ran ACR 6.6, just changed the profile to Portrait v4 and output jpg files.  I then changed the profile to Portrait v2 and output jpg again, using ACR 6.6.  I then compared Portrait v2 for ACR 6.6 with the ones from ACR 6.5 that I ran before I installed ACR 6.6 - they did not match.  I changed back to ACR 6.5 and using Portrait v2 output jpg files on my 54 test images and compared them to jpg files I had output with ACR 6.5 before I installed ACR 6.6.  These were a perfect match.  After I read your above post I changed back to ACR 6.6 and opened the images I sent you and they show medium contrast selected for both Portrait v2 and Portrait v4.  The ACR 6.6 Portrait v2 still do not agree with ACR 6.5 Portrait v2 images.  I think there is a problem with ACR 6.6.   ... View more

Vit, have you compared an image converted in both ACR 6.5 and ACR 6.6 using a version 2 profile?  I think they should be a perfect match, but that is not what I get with Camera Portrait v2 and a D700 NEF file.  ... View more

I am positive I used "default" settings in ACR including tone curve (tab Tone curve, subtab Point) - I checked them after your above post.  Do you have a D700 NEF file you can check yourself?  Convert it using Camera Portrait v2 with ACR 6.5 (black =5) and ACR 6.6 (black = 5) and they are not the same.  Change the black to 9 in ACR 6.6 and the conversions are very close.  When I do conversions of D700 NEF files using ACR 6.6 with black level = 9 and Camera Portrait v4 they are very close to NX2 conversions using Portrait.  It appears the black slider of ACR 6.6 has a problem relative to ACR 6.5. ... View more

I get a much better match between Camera Portrait v4 processed with ACR 6.6 to Nikon Capture NX2 Portrait if I set black to 9 instead of 5 in ACR 6.6.  This also give good match between Camera Portrait v2 processed with ACR 6.5 (black = 5) and ACR 6.6 (black = 9).  Anyone else see this characteristic of ACR 6.6? ... View more

Vit, I agree that images converted using ACR6.5 and ACR6.6 with the same Camera profile should match, but that is not what I see.  I used Camera Portrait v2.  I also get better match between ACR6.5 with Camera Portrait v2 than ACR6.6 with Camera Portrait v4 to Nikon Capture NX2 Portrait conversions.  All of these are using D700 NEF files.  I sent you images by e-mail that show the issue.  ... View more

I downloaded Camera Raw 6.6 Release Candidate and installed it on CS5.  I compared D700 Camera Portrait v4 to Capture NX2 Portrait and they appear lower in contrast - don't match as good as Camera Portrait v2 with Camera Raw 6.5.  Camera Portrait v2 dosen't match as good with Camera Raw 6.6 as it did with Camera Raw 6.5.  It appears contrast is lower with Camera Raw 6.6 than 6.5.  Anybody else notice this? I also notice the recovery slider issue with v4 profiles, but not with v2 or v0 profiles.  How can you return to Camera Raw 6.5 after you install Camera Raw 6.6 Release Candidate? ... View more