Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] DNG/Lightroom Question
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:33:16 -0500
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Lightroom 4 Public Beta can now be downloaded from <
labs.adobe.com/technologies>

There are the usual cautions about using it only on copies as it is still
in beta.

Tina

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> If you have Saved as DNG on import you can vary process (2003 or 2010) and
> /or profile as others have noted.  Further any old or custom profiles you
> once used will always be available on your PC to ensure backwards
> compatability.
>
> However you can't undo DNG's back to the first Raw format unless you
> selected the option to embed the original Raw file in the preferences. When
> that is done of course you get a much larger DNG. I've never played with it
> personally.  Or if you kept a copy of the original Raw you could try again
> and compare if wanted.
> I bet you're fine just with those DNG options though.
>
> The new V4 Profiles have some new tags which the current versions do not
> understand. There's an exposure offset that I think the new profiles
> require. They also broke the DNG profile editor amongst other programs.
> That being so I would guess that you will need LR4/ ACR whatever it will be
> to take advantage of the new profiles\features (but all of the existing
> functionality will still be good). That has been the case previously.
> That is only my guess. I don't know which camera's profile have/will be
> updated. Canons for sure!
>
> I do have a new M9 profile (courtesy of Adobe as part of some analysis
> right now)) and it does work with LR3.6.  However I don't know as yet if it
> is a one off/ beta or will be standard in LR4.
>
> Head on over to Sandy McGuffog's blog for info on this, if interested.
> Sandy has been very kindly looking at the same couple of DNGs for me as
> well.
> http://chromasoft.blogspot.com/
>
> By the way another thing with the new M9 profile (at least) is that you
> need to set the Profile *before* WB. Worth trying with any Raw file if you
> are experimenting with different profiles.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
> *Die besten W?nsche*
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>
> On 10 January 2012 18:34, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > DNG or Raw is really a bit like an undeveloped negative. The camera
> > calibration would be your basic developer soup and then of course the
> > Develop module gives your further control. I am probably stretching the
> > analogy too far but you get the ideas :-)
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > > Please don't be confused - I had forgotten that you can switch between
> > > profiles in LR. It is an age thing!
> > >
> > > Gerry
> > >
> > > Gerry Walden LRPS
> > > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office)
> > > +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile)
> > > Web: www.gwpics.com
> > >
> > >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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