X2 processing better than LR4 ?

[Peter L]

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It seems that the jpegs ooc appear nicer than the dng files processed in LR4,

the DNG files seem over saturated and need sharpening and luminance noice reduction,

these are files at ISO 1600, whereas the jpeg at 1600 seem more natural and less exaggerated, the DNG files seem actually exaggerated at all ISO values and EV configurations.

Does LR4 detect the Leica DNG files or does that needs to be set up ?

Obviously, if I am getting proper looking ooc jpegs (camera processed), than LR4 is not properly importing the Leica DNG files.

 

Help please

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[Peter L]

1st image Jpeg OOC 2nd image DNG OOC converted to jpeg for this site, both untouched in

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[peterbengtson]

When a digital camera (any camera not just a Leica) makes an in camera jpeg file it applies a set of processing parameters to the image which includes sharpening, noise reduction, gain, contrast, color temperature etc., in other words all the sliders you see in Lightroom or other processing programs. The in camera jpeg processing is just someone's idea or guess at what processing should be applied. On a DLSR with all those different modes on the dial those modes are just the camera manufacturer's idea of processing presets. When you use Lightroom to convert to jpeg without making these adjustments the result will obviously be different. Once you have arrived at a default development profile that you like you can save it as a preset and apply it on import. Do not ignore sharpening, all digital files need some degree of sharpening. The in camera jpeg looks sharper because the camera has applied the default sharpening.

[250swb]

As Peter has said your DNG file (RAW file) has the potential to offer increased image quality, but you need to adjust it yourself, or create or use a ready made preset when converting the image in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), which is the RAW processing engine in Lightroom.

 

In the JPEG image, and unless you go into the menu and change the default settings, the camera is producing what the manufacturer thinks you might want to see, and often it can be very good. But it is at the expense of crude definitions, so the sharpening may not be perfect, or the colour, etc. So I think you should explore ACR. The first thing to try is the 'Auto' button and see if that improves things from the initial import. The next would be going through the various colour balance settings as see if they get you closer to the image you want, then contrast, clarity etc. You will soon get the hang of it. Save the image as a TIFF file so you have the highest quality image to carry on working with in Lightroom itself.

 

Steve

[tredlie]

Yes, indeed. All true what the previous posters said.

One simply has to notice that there is no 'DNG image' you can look at.

Before you can see anything a set of parameters need to be applied to the DNG.

And that will be very different from one rendition (in camera) to software package 1 and software package 2.