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Import from Lightroom: we do settings go to?

Lost Carrier
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I'm currently evaluating C1P as a replacement for Lightroom (6). Importing Lightroom-Catalog is a cool feature - althought I know not all modification are preserved.

Now I did a little test import and checked what my Lightroom settings render to in C1P.

I see Whitebalance translated 1:1 (of course) and tint about half the value from Lightroom (= fine!). I would have expected Lightrooms lights and shadows to land in what C1P calls HDR, but this appears to be all-zero while I did pretty extensive changes in Lightroom.

The imported image looks realy pretty close to that one in Lightroom - so somewhere these settings have been translated to, but where? ...can someone (maybe with a bit more C1P experience ;-) ) give me a hint?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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  • Tom Rockwell

    I think any difference you're seeing are due to the different renderings that LR and C1 do.

    In other words, if you import a new file into both LR and C1 that file will look somewhat different before you make any adjustments to it because LR and C1 render differently.

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  • Lost Carrier

    ....stumbled upon this as-well - in-deed it's quite a lot different!

    A bit strange that this automatic makes my test images look so similar while leaving out a bunch of imho important properties from LR?

    In C1P I have some control over this by selecting a different ICC profile or curve in "Base Characteristics", in Lightroom I could not find a switch for this. I could also not find a suitable ICC profile and curve combination in C1P that would match the untouched image in LR. Does this RAW stuff really leave so much room for interpretation or what is this?

    BTW: Cam is Nikon D750.

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  • Lost Carrier

    @Walter: Ah, in-deed - you're right... somehow I never went that far down the Develop module... ;-)

    ...ok, but still I cannot find a setting where those two would match...

    ...maybe in-deed room for interpretation?

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  • SFA

    @Lost Carrier

    "Does this RAW stuff really leave so much room for interpretation or what is this?"

    Yes.

    As does each RAW converter internally and likely differently.

    Unless you accept the camera rendered jpg, which is rendered according to whatever in-camera settings you have set plus whatever the camera development people think is the best option for their brand, is always correct, the chances are that the comparisons one makes are almost entirely irrelevant.

    Whether one application can match the same rendition as another is not important.

    Whether you (or a client) like the results and the way they are produced and the effort required to produce them is pretty much all that matters

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