best RAW developer for M9 at the moment

[k-hawinkler]

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Mark P: under the "Develop" tab, go to "New Preset", give it a name and save.

Of curse once the new settings you have chosen are in use.

 

 

Thanks.

 

How does one then activate the "New Preset" with the given name, for example M9 Digital Camera in LR5 or in ACR of CS6?

[jeffz]

Lightroom (and Camera Raw) have very good algorithms for demosaicing, adjustments, and corrections, but their profiles for the digital Leica M cameras just suck. Fortunately, it isn't too hard to make your own profiles and use those instead.

 

For M9, M9-P, and M-E, try these settings as a starting point:

 

Pick a fresh DNG image file which has no settings applied yet (or if it has, delete the settings). In the Camera Calibration tab, select the existing profile "Embedded" and then adjust the colour primary values as follows:

 

Red hue: +15

Red sat: -15

Green hue: 0

Green sat: -5

Blue hue: -15

Blue sat: -25

 

In the Basic Settings tab, reduce the global saturation to taste; I'd suggest -5 or -10. Save these setting as the new standard settings for M9 Digital Camera.

 

 

I just wanted to say THANKS. I set up a LR5 preset and develop all my M9 imports with it. A great look.

[CaptZoom]

Thanks.

 

How does one then activate the "New Preset" with the given name, for example M9 Digital Camera in LR5 or in ACR of CS6?

 

For LR:

-Develop Module

-Create camera profile

Click "Develop" folder top left

Choose "Set Default Settings..."

Confirm "Update to Current Settings" in the pop up.

 

^This will alter the embedded profile. You can not undo this, at least not easily and not with remember exactly what values you changed and by how much.

 

Alternatively, you can save the setting as a develop preset and apply the preset at import. This way you preserve the Adobe provided profile and get to use 01af's suggestion, and choose whichever one works better for you.

[terrycym]

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[rafael_macia]

Lightroom (and Camera Raw) have very good algorithms for demosaicing, adjustments, and corrections, but their profiles for the digital Leica M cameras just suck. Fortunately, it isn't too hard to make your own profiles and use those instead.

 

For M9, M9-P, and M-E, try these settings as a starting point:

 

Pick a fresh DNG image file which has no settings applied yet (or if it has, delete the settings). In the Camera Calibration tab, select the existing profile "Embedded" and then adjust the colour primary values as follows:

 

Red hue: +15

Red sat: -15

Green hue: 0

Green sat: -5

Blue hue: -15

Blue sat: -25

 

In the Basic Settings tab, reduce the global saturation to taste; I'd suggest -5 or -10. Save these setting as the new standard settings for M9 Digital Camera.

 

All I have ever used is ACR to process before opening up in PS. I will apply these settings, and create a preset. It will also be interesting for me to put the settings into Lightroom 5, which I only recently used for the first time to extract metadata. I have never used LR to develop.

If the processing tools of LR is as good as ACR, that would be be convenient, since the metadata plug in is in LR.

 

Anyway, thank you for the settings.

Rafael

[CaptZoom]

LR uses ACR as it's RAW developing/processing engine. There's no difference between the two as far as that is concerned.

 

 

All I have ever used is ACR to process before opening up in PS. I will apply these settings, and create a preset. It will also be interesting for me to put the settings into Lightroom 5, which I only recently used for the first time to extract metadata. I have never used LR to develop.

If the processing tools of LR is as good as ACR, that would be be convenient, since the metadata plug in is in LR.

 

Anyway, thank you for the settings.

Rafael