Does Sony Own Or Pay Adobe??

CAcreeks wrote:

Batdude wrote:

... I have been using LR all along.
But then recently I started messing around with the Sony A7RIV and the skin tones and over all IQ look freacking amazing and natural with minimal PP and no matter what I do with the Panasonic images they look out of wack. Seriously, no matter what I adjust the images look weird and unnatural. The one that also works pretty good is actually the Nikon but (to me) the Sony wind hands down. Is this a coincidence or what???

The Sony A7Riv sample gallery has plenty of people photos.

What I notice is that the out-of-camera JPEGs are pretty good, but the ACR converted ones are very noisy and too yellow. Possibly you run noise reduction with LR but DPreview does not.

More research is needed... I run Linux so I do not have Lightroom. I'll try Darktable.

This has all the earmarks of a soon-to-be-locked thread, but I'm fascinated by it, though I can't afford an A7Riv.

Yes now I’m becoming more curious and would like to start looking into downloading some of those free software RAW converter trials to see how the files behave.  This is all for learning purposes as well because an A7RIV is waaaaaaaay out of my league as well and if I get one it could be in three years maybe.

Again, the camera I am kind of interested in is the cheaper 24MP Panasonic S1, not the Sony.

Maybe Lightroom is what has gone down the drain 😬