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After 50 weddings with the R3's

Started 9 months ago | User reviews thread
RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
Re: Post processing?

noggin2k1 wrote:

RLight wrote:

Post processing... Thoughts? Lightroom seems to make R3 images too "dreamy" by default. A little too nostalgic and not necessarily reflective of traditional default Canon norms.

I find the files a delight personally - probably the most malleable and versatile of any mirrorless camera I've ever used.

I needed a bit of a play in Lr camera calibration settings, but after 10 minutes, I was really happy with the images without making any preset changes that I was using on my R5 files.

Figured it out (for me)... WB, is throwing LR off. Custom application of WB or "hard" settings resolves in LR. Certain artificial light had too much "nostalgia" otherwise.

I find the R3 to be the most cunning Canon to date regarding AWB, but, there's a delta between what I can achieve in-camera, vs LR which I can now attribute to WB. Makes sense as that's one of the things Canon re-did on the R3 and now R6 II. Thankfully that's an easy fix. This sounds like Adobe may have some work cut out for them with the newer updated Canons with "deep learning" WB. Seems to take LR a minute with the new Canon files for updated support. True CR3 color match support took them since the M50 (Mark I circa 2018 I believe) till a few months ago, which is, 4 years? Let's hope not. This would account for why folks using C1, or actually posted SOOC (rare) had different results I was seeing in Flickr, but couldn't figure out why as most folks use a Lightroom workflow, but those images were all skewed towards ambers or were otherwise "cold".

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