Does Sony Own Or Pay Adobe??

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

CAcreeks wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

I did quickie Lightroom edits on a few RAW images from the X-H1 sample gallery with my default Fuji profile. These aren't in the greatest light, and I did give the WB a little tweaking here and there where it was obviously off, but these basically look how they look and I think the skin tones are fairly decent, no?

You're good in the dark of the Lightroom, Erik. Those are all better than the out-of-camera equivalents in the sample gallery.

At high ISO Fuji apparently does a lot of noise reduction, which reduces sharpness. Whatever noise reduction you did, less so. Nothing wrong with white balance or skin tones, either way.

Thanks, with Lightroom, a RAW file and a little know-how you can get the color to look however you want it to look. Whether you want your Sony files to look like Fuji's or the other way around, you can do that. There's a lot more to Lightroom beyond the default import settings and the basic slider adjustments that most people never really learn to make the most of.

RAW files are not images at all, just raw sensor data that can be interpreted and processed in many different ways. Whatever beautiful or horrible color you are seeing in Lightroom, Capture One (or whatever) was applied to the colorless RAW file by that editor. If the files from one camera can have great color, the files from a different camera can have great color too.

Boy oh boy. Man where do I start. I have heard that many many times through out the years but man I have to disagree with that. At least that has not been my experience. This topic can also get complicated and all technical (which I'm not) and it wouldn't be the first time.

I have shot with different cameras and tried different software and yes with great effort and time you can get one photo to look like another brand's output, but, never exactly. You can get close, but not exactly.

From what I (personally) have experienced, a RAW file is like a RAW piece of Rib Eye steak. You can get a piece of RAW steak from three different stores and yes it is RAW so you can make it any way you want, but each piece of RAW steak comes from different cows so the tenderness and flavor will NOT necessarily be the same.  Something will be different.

But from what many here and other parts of this planet have seen, each RAW converter software interprets and responds very differently to color tones and stuff.  That is a fact which is one of the reasons why many don't like and use LR but C1 or something else.

I could be totally wrong but what I'm seeing is that LR doesn't keep up, fine tune or optimizes it's RAW converter for many of the cameras out there.  Like I said before, so far the images that I'm processing with the older cameras I'm using look okay, but many of the newer models, including Fuji don't look so good and I know for a fact that these cameras are much more capable of beautiful images and up to a point, with very little PP.

Why do I say that?  Because I'm comparing several photos with LR and Luminar which I have as well and Lightroom's profiles are making color output out of wack.  This complaint has been going on for quite a long time and for some reason I'm starting to notice it more.  The main reason why I use LR is because it's workflow simply works for me but I'm starting to see that maybe LR is the actual problem.

Some custom import settings and a different color profile (or customizing your own) will go a long way towards achieving better results in any editor.