Does Sony Own Or Pay Adobe??

Batdude wrote:

The reason why I'm asking this is because lately I have been testing out a few other camera brands . . . .

fwiw thomas knoll--the originator of photoshop, its lead developer until cs4, and current contributor to adobe camera raw (i.e. the raw engine behind lightroom)--shoots canon.

i proof hundreds of files every day from many different cameras--i see canon, sony, nikon, fuji, even olympus and panasonic files galore--and the moment i learned that thomas knoll was a canon guy (a while back), i suddenly felt like everything about how lightroom / acr handles various files made sense.

because honestly, it has always "felt" to me like the math underlying lightroom-acr slider functions and transitions was conceived "canon first" and then applied to other brands with varied levels of success or degrees of compromise.

everyone will see it differently, of course, but i've always felt lightroom-acr is at its worst with files from fuji, from the early nikon "gen 2 / picture-control-era" cameras (d3 / 4 / 700 / 800 / 300 / 90 / 7000) and from sony cameras before the third-gen a7 bodies (a7, ii, a6000, etc.)

if i had to pick the files i least like proofing with adobe, they'd definitely be from the nikon d800 and sony a7 / a7 ii cameras. there is a sallow skunkiness to d800 and early a7 files in adobe that . . . i just can't. no lies, i groan when i seem them in my queue--which, fortunately, is happening less and less as we move on from them. d810, d850? better. a7 iii over a7 ii / a7r ii? much better. i'm not knocking the cameras themselves, by the way--they're all fine tools. adobe just doesn't handle some of them harmoniously, and that's on adobe.

i would seriously, seriously recommend either capture one pro or the mfr's bundled / oem converter for owners of those early sony a7 cameras, for those early "gen 2" nikon cameras, and for fuji owners, frankly. tiff a flat-netural-balanced 16-bit file into lightroom from the oem converter (capture nx-d, etc.) if you absolutely have to use lightroom's tools or cataloging--your life with color will be a whole lot easier. otherwise, capture one's deeper color controls and camera-specific iec profiles make working files from those bodies a far more productive proposition