How to identify Which Leica Looks Preset Was Used in Lightroom

[rclompus]

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It's  been interesting using a Q3 and Leica Looks JPG presets.  When importing images into Lightroom Classic, I have not been able to identify which Leica Look preset was used for an image.   Is this data available?  Many thanks.  

[Denebola]

@rclompus This kind of informations are usually contained in the picture Exif fields called "Maker Notes", which very often are undocumented by the manufacturer. I don't use Lightroom,  so I don't know how/if it manages them.

Here I have to go forward a bit in "nerd" mode, sorry, I hope of not be too much technical.

The only system I know that (partially) shows explicitly some of the Maker Notes fields is Exiftool (https://exiftool.org/ ), probably the most complete tool to view and edit images metadata. It is a command line tool, but using ExifToolGui (https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/releases , unluckily available for Windows only) you can have a GUI which helps a lot in using it. 

Another GUI could be https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/manual/index.html (it should be OS agnostic, but I have not tested it).

ExifTool works both with .jpg as well as .dng files (sometimes it fails to decode, but in my experience this is quite rare).

Using ExifToolGui, you can check and decode several Maker notes fields. One of them is named  0x412, and contains the Leica Look used in the picture.

In the screen capture attached here you can see, as example, the results of some Q3 files, which shows the used Leica Look as "Monochrome High Contrast", "Eternal" and "Vivid".

Hope this helps...

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Edited June 4, 2024 by Denebola

[OlivierG]

Complementary question, is that possible to apply "Leica looks" out of the camera (e.g in LR) ? I am newbie in Leica's world

[jaapv]

Not as far as I know.  You can create your own look in Lightroom and save it. There are also plenty of film simulations to be found on the Internet. Nik Color Efex is one of the most popular. 

[OlivierG]

3 hours ago, jaapv said:

Not as far as I know.  You can create your own look in Lightroom and save it. There are also plenty of film simulations to be found on the Internet. Nik Color Efex is one of the most popular. 

Thx 👌