Lightroom import defaults to adobe color, ignores preferences

DxO PureRAW
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Can someone give me some help please - I’m losing my marbles here.

I have been trying to tackle imports into Lightroom for my OM1 Mk2 - basically lightroom does a terrible job of colour rendition but I have found that if I set the profile to Adobe Neutral then the auto settings become a good starting point & hence I have set this as a preset and put it in the preferences - it also allows me to disable the default sharpening that lightroom likes to apply and rely on PureRaw.

However, inspite of setting all my preferences to import with the profile I have stated, images from PureRaw always come in as Adobe Colour, all the other settings are fine but the import from PureRaw sets the wrong colour profile.

Is there somewhere I can change this please as really annoying.

I am using pureraw as standalone to process files so it’s not the immediate interaction between the two products.

I can see there is potentially a default behaviour of DNG happening but why is everything else working just fine?

Any pointers please?

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My Canon has a Color space setting. I keep it set to Adobe RGB. It also has sRGB. Is your camera possibly set a similar setting and it is being used by the software?

Ron

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Thanks for thinking of that but it’s the Profile on the Basic tab in Lightroom that is my problem.

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That’s fine - as long as you are aware;

  • Color Space settings actually apply only to JPG files

  • RAW files do not have a “Color space” - tho, they typically do store the setting applied by the camera, which may be used by RAW processing software to anticipate the user’s color space preference … such as when “As Shot” is applied.

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I see the same thing even though I use PR as a plugin in LrC. The RAW has the profile set to Camera Flat (Nikon). The DNG comes back as Adobe Color. The strange part is that there is a “amount” slider underneath the profile name.. There shouldn’t one there for Adobe Color. Plus this profile is the same as Camera Flat and is different from the “real”Adobe Color, which I selected manually. Not really sure what LrC is doing? Producing some kind a custom profile or naming issue? Anyway, at least for me, it doesn’t make a difference. Since I don’t do any processing in the RAW file, if I wanted to I could just reset the image. Camera Flat is set as my default. I did an experiment. I set the RAW file’s profile to Adobe Color and PR returned a DNG with the “real” Adobe Color. An issue with non-Adobe profiles assigned to RAW file?