Lightroom camera profiles for M6 MII?

Has anyone had any success getting camera profiles for Lightroom that can be applied to raw files? I know for the RP, someone copied the profiles from the 6D Mark II and "renamed" them so LR thinks they are for the RP. Seems to work pretty well.

But since the M6 MII uses a new sensor which is also in the 90D, are we out of luck? And yes, I am aware you can buy some such software to create your own profiles but I have no interest in doing that.

Your post prompted me to look in Lightroom. I hadn't realized that there wasn't a camera specific profile for the M6II. I have always preferred the other profiles that Adobe supplies, so I've never noticed the lack (I never used the camera specific profiles on my other cameras for which Adobe supplied such profiles). There are something like 52 different profiles provided as standard. I really like the Adobe Color profile as my starting point, but I suppose if you really want to mimic the look of the Canon OOC JPEG exactly, you want a camera specific profile. Just out of interest, what is it you don't like in all the different profiles that are provided?

On a sunny day the LR profiles wash out the skin tones of my kids. Comparing it to a TIFF made with DPP4 side-by-side shows a big difference. The tone isn't really off, it looks desaturated. The rest of the colours in the image look OK, so increasing saturation or vibrancy globally won't work. Setting the WB a bit warmer has the same effect.

The slightly cool rendering of the Sigma 56mm compared to the Canon 32mm makes it even worse.

Alastair Norcross said:

Your post prompted me to look in Lightroom. I hadn't realized that there wasn't a camera specific profile for the M6II. I have always preferred the other profiles that Adobe supplies, so I've never noticed the lack (I never used the camera specific profiles on my other cameras for which Adobe supplied such profiles). There are something like 52 different profiles provided as standard. I really like the Adobe Color profile as my starting point, but I suppose if you really want to mimic the look of the Canon OOC JPEG exactly, you want a camera specific profile. Just out of interest, what is it you don't like in all the different profiles that are provided?

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I am in the process of trying out the M6II and the RP. I came from Fuji where they have really nice camera profiles and since I do mostly Landscapes I used to use there Velvia profile.

So, I wanted to try out Canon's Landscape profile. From the Canon site :

The “Landscape” Picture Style changes the color respectively; blue to a vivid and deep color, green to a vivid and bright color.

Anyway, with the RP, when i applied the Landscape profile to a test raw, it did just that. It was superior to both the Adobe Color and Adobe Landscape profiles. Another question I have, I know the Landscape picture style modifies sharpness, do the Lightroom Profiles do the same thing? Or does it only affect the color?

Zen4Life said:

Alastair Norcross said:

Your post prompted me to look in Lightroom. I hadn't realized that there wasn't a camera specific profile for the M6II. I have always preferred the other profiles that Adobe supplies, so I've never noticed the lack (I never used the camera specific profiles on my other cameras for which Adobe supplied such profiles). There are something like 52 different profiles provided as standard. I really like the Adobe Color profile as my starting point, but I suppose if you really want to mimic the look of the Canon OOC JPEG exactly, you want a camera specific profile. Just out of interest, what is it you don't like in all the different profiles that are provided?

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I am in the process of trying out the M6II and the RP. I came from Fuji where they have really nice camera profiles and since I do mostly Landscapes I used to use there Velvia profile.

So, I wanted to try out Canon's Landscape profile. From the Canon site :

The “Landscape” Picture Style changes the color respectively; blue to a vivid and deep color, green to a vivid and bright color.

Anyway, with the RP, when i applied the Landscape profile to a test raw, it did just that. It was superior to both the Adobe Color and Adobe Landscape profiles. Another question I have, I know the Landscape picture style modifies sharpness, do the Lightroom Profiles do the same thing? Or does it only affect the color?

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I think it only affects the color, but it also looks a little more contrasty. That might be an illusion, though. I prefer to adjust contrast and sharpening myself, along with all the other adjustments in LR (texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance, etc.).

One really good thing about the latest release of Lightroom is that they've introduced the ability to make ISO-adaptive presets, which you can set to apply to all images (or all images taken with a certain camera) on import. If you develop two or more images at different ISO levels, with different settings, you can then generate a preset, which will apply those settings for images at those ISO levels, and calculated intermediate settings for images at different ISO levels. I generated one from 4 images, at ISO 100, 800, 6400, and 12800. The main reason to do this is to apply different levels of noise reduction for different ISO settings, but I also like to vary the clarity, sharpening, and shadow recovery for different ISO settings. The preset can include as many of your settings as you like, including, of course, the profile. Once you have set it up, it enormously speeds up your workflow, because all the settings are applied on import (assuming you've set that up in preferences). Quite often, I don't need to apply any more processing to an image, or perhaps just some cropping. You can use different presets for different cameras, and even for different models of the same camera (it identifies them by serial number).