I think it would be really useful to be able to specify a custom preset to an image with a Exif data matching a definable criteria.
An example,
when loading in 1000 images from a day of shooting, all images shot at ISO >= 6400, apply custom preset “Noise Reduction High” with some XD2s settings, images between 6400 and 1600, apply a different user defined preset.
Or all images shot with a certain lens and focal length apply ‘X’ amount of lens softness correction. With another lens, automatically apply ‘Y’ amount…etc.
Anything from the EXIF data could be assigned.
*edit: Renamed the title as it was confusing even to me.
These features are already builtin and in a much better way. Denoising adapts to actual noise level, not only to ISO. Lens Sharpness Optimization actions depend not only on the lens but also on aperture, focus distance, and the camera.
Now you have a luxury to tune these parameters according to specific subject and your vision about texture/sharpness, forgetting about all those technicalities. What you propose might have been reasonable 5-15 years ago, not now, as it seems to me. Speaking from my experience, shooting events at very high ISO and using about 25 lenses for various purposes.
I would like to use some EXIF data to automatically rename export files, i.e. to include things like ‘ShutterCount’ (different cameras encode it in different ways, provided they do). But that’s a different problem, which was already raised in this forum many times.
What if I don’t like the default settings and find myself always tweaking within a range of settings for different ISO’s? I don’t want to switch it on for anything below 200, waste of processing.
There is also WB, sometimes location, shutter speed, EV comp and a list as long as your arm of different adjustments to colours, exposures…etc you may want to make on ingest…
I only gave two examples of what I used to use but I’ll give another. My 16-35 for needs very very little softness compensation at 16mm if at all, and loads (1.5) at 35mm. It also renders colours warmer and more often than not needs to be cooled a certain amount.
When “flash fired” another lens I own needs again, WB shifting, however I like how it reproduces colours at all other times.
During long exposures, I don’t wish to add softness compensation, so shutter speed would be good to define also.
Trying to match body + lens combinations with settings you’ve worked out in advance… etc
Just a quality of life improvement to be able to (after you’ve put the initial work in) throw your images in and know you’re near a baseline…