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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Problem - SOLVED!!!
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 17:29:04 -0700
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Great! Nothing more frustrating than fighting random tech problems. Glad it 
all worked out,
Bob

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:

> SOLUTION FOUND
> 
> I have just discovered that if, in LR presets on the left panel, I clcik 
> 'Zeroed' I get my colour image back. Clicking 'Colour' on the right 
> develop panel did not work.
> 
> Hopefully problem solved, but why and how it happened is beyond me. Thanks 
> everyone for your help.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> www.gwpics.com
> 
> On 7 Sep 2013, at 15:46, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> I can't find that preset in preferences, but to clarify these are not 
>> jpegs shot at the same time as the raw I am talking about but the preview 
>> jpegs which are embedded in the raw files to help with previewing.
>> 
>> I am currently on LR5.2RC. I have tried going back to LR5 to no avail. 
>> Don't know what else to try.
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Gerry Walden
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>> www.gwpics.com
>> 
>> On 7 Sep 2013, at 15:35, Robert G Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> There is a LR setting in preferences, I think, that says don't import 
>>> jpeg. It's prospective, not retroactive, so you may want to try a 
>>> "test2" catalogue. 
>>> Sorry if I missed this, but what ver. of LR are you running?
>>> 
>>> Bob Adler
>>> 
>>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I have tried that and the images show as 
>>>> mono in the import grid. I have come to the conclusion that the jpeg 
>>>> which acts as a preview embedded in the DNG file is in b&w and I don't 
>>>> know how to get around that. Capture One reads the files as colour. 
>>>> Aperture won't read them at all.
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>> 
>>>> On 7 Sep 2013, at 15:10, Robert G Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Try opening a new "test" Catalogue. Import the file folder holding 
>>>>> those files as you normally do. 
>>>>> If OK then original catalogue has problem. If not then files have 
>>>>> problem. 
>>>>> If catalogue problem you can open original catalogue and test it's 
>>>>> integrity. 
>>>>> If file problem perhaps you converted jpgs to DNGs?
>>>>> That's where I would start anyway...
>>>>> Good luck,
>>>>> Bob
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bob Adler
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ric
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for trying to help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is additional information I have posted on the Adobe Lightroom 
>>>>>> Forum:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have tried reseting and it alters nothing on the main panel, but 
>>>>>> the very strange thing is that the thumbnail at the top of the left 
>>>>>> panel (in Develop) reverts to colour. Something very strange is going 
>>>>>> on, and it seems to be a pretty random collection of images affected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All the images (as far as I can tell) are from a Panasonic GH-2 I was 
>>>>>> using at that time, and in some cases I have 2 copies of the same 
>>>>>> image on file (e.g. 10221.dng and 10221-2.dng) and in those cases the 
>>>>>> first is in b&w and the second in colour.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The problem is definitely within Lightroom as the images appear in 
>>>>>> colour in other programs. Very strange.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gerry
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 7 Sep 2013, at 14:11, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> shots in the dark:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ? did you try hitting the reset in develop module?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ? is it setting a profile on import?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ric
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:49 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I am completely baffled! I have a series of .dng files from a jazz 
>>>>>>>> concert which show up as colour images in Finder and yet Lightroom 
>>>>>>>> 5 insists on rendering them as b&w. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> My understanding is that a .dng (i.e. raw) file cannot, by its very 
>>>>>>>> nature, be b&w and yet I have been all through the settings in LR 
>>>>>>>> and cannot find anything amiss except the red slider in the 'Hue' 
>>>>>>>> settings is at +96. I have tried reseting it to ) but it does 
>>>>>>>> nothing.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Gerry
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>>>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>>>>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>>>>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>>>>>> 
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