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

tgutgu wrote:

Mais78 wrote:

Dolan Halbrook wrote:

As a software developer I like to read the release notes when a new release of software that I use ships. In any case, way down at the bottom of them I saw this tidbit:

• Added Camera Matching color profiles (Natural, Muted, Portrait, Vivid) for the following Olympus cameras:
  • Olympus E-5
  • Olympus E-M1
  • Olympus E-M5
  • Olympus E-P1
  • Olympus E-P2
  • Olympus E-P3
  • Olympus E-P5
  • Olympus E-PL1
  • Olympus E-PL1s
  • Olympus E-PL2
  • Olympus E-PL3
  • Olympus E-PL5
  • Olympus E-PL6
  • Olympus E-PM1
  • Olympus E-PM2
  • Olympus STYLUS 1
  • Olympus XZ-1
  • Olympus XZ-2
  • Olympus XZ-10

Holy moly! In any case, I installed Lightroom 5.3, applied the "Natural" profile, and it looks pretty good. I'm curious to compare it with an in-camera JPEG just to see how close it is. Let the fun ensue...

Good tip, as canon user i was really missing them on my new em5.

question: exactly which sliders are affected by the camera profiles? I can tell contrast, saturation and color rendition, anything else?

There are no sliders affected. The profiles just give a different base for a start.

camera profiles do affect WB sliders in some cases for example

Eric Chan :: ( http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=75480.msg638373#msg638373 ) @ June 11, 2013 :

"....That depends on how you've set the white balance settings.

What you're referring to is the As Shot white balance setting, which is the default. This simply uses the WB values as recorded originally by the camera and written into the raw file. WB in this case is recorded as a set of gain factors (or equivalently, "camera neutral" values). The translation between these neutral/gain values and white points (or temperature and tint slider values, which is what you see in the UI) is dependent on the camera profile (color matrix values). So when you switch between different camera profiles, the translation between the camera-recorded gain values and user-visible temperature/tint values can change, and this is expected behavior. When switching between Adobe-provided profiles (e.g., Adobe Standard and Camera Standard) for a given camera, you generally don't see these values change because we use the same ColorMatrix tags for all the profiles of a given camera model.

When you set a custom white balance setting (e.g., Daylight from the popup, or set your own temp/tint slider values) then ACR applies white balance using your chosen white point, not by using the camera-recorded neutral/gain values. Therefore the temp/tint slider values remain the same regardless of which camera profile you choose..."