Hidden in the LR 5.3 release notes... camera profiles for damn near every Oly m43 body ever

Torsten Hoff wrote:

Dolan Halbrook wrote:

My guess is that Olympus finally worked with Adobe to provide the profiles

no, they didn't because Adobe has totally different raw conversion and Adobe has tools to create a matching rendering (but not exactly)

Eric Chan :: ( http://forums.adobe.com/message/3953735#3953735 ) @ Oct 4, 2011

".....Just to clarify: The "Camera"-prefixed profiles (e.g., Camera Standard) provided by Adobe are neither designed nor expected to match the appearance of in-camera JPEGs (which are usually limited to a smaller color space and/or may have auto-adjustments applied, such as vignette correction, shadow exposure compensation, etc.). Instead, they are intended to match the appearance of raw files processed thru the vendors' software, using a wider color space, with the auto-adjustments disabled. Sometimes these are similar, but sometimes not. (For example, "Standard" mode for Canon S90 in-camera is quite different in appearance compared to "Standard" picture style when processing the raw files in the Canon software.)

...Yes, I just wanted to clarify that result from the Adobe "Camera" profiles may not match the result from in-camera JPEG for various reasons (the color space issue being one of them). Usually the in-camera settings have various auto adjustments also enabled by default...."

, which means they should be pretty darn close to the output from Olympus Viewer.

Adobe doesn't need that information from Olympus, it is trivial to create camera-specific color profiles. Users have been doing it for years, it's just that Adobe has never before bothered to create profiles for Olympus cameras.

you don't understand... it is not camera specific color profile, it is camera rendering matching profile, where Adobe to some extent is trying to imitate the colors that raw converter in firmware makes (JPG colors - but see the note from Eric Chan above about exactness)...