Nikon Adobe Camera RAW calibrated settings

Centurion

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20 Nov 2006 - 11:28 PM

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I recently aquired some settings for ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) calibrated to the D2H but I thought I would try it with my own D70s.

Granted its not the same sensor but I thought Id try it anyway.

I decided Id post the settings on here for anyone struggling to gain decent results from their RAW files.

Once the settings are in place you can save as a preset but note you will have to modify exposure and white balance as this can differ from shot to shot.

Adjust Tab
Shadows: 11
Brightness: 50
Contrast: +57
Saturation: +30

Detail Tab
Sharpness: 47 (you can adjust this anywhere you like, but I have been using other sharpening methods in post if this doesn't get it sharp enough for large prints
Luminance Smoothing: 0
Color Noise Reduction: 25 (This setting is key to Taming the Amount of color in the noise/grain of the D70s higher ISO shots, which I explain more on later)

Lens Tab
Nada... ZERO on all

Calibrate
Shadow Tint: 0
Red Hue: +26
Red Saturation: -38
Green Hue: +41
Green Saturation: 0
Blue Hue: -9
Blue Saturation: +22

Im sure you will find these settings invaluable to achieving great RAW results

Gav

Thanks to Scott Jua for taking the time to produce these settings.

aftertherain

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21 Nov 2006 - 8:06 AM

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Thankyou
Merl

scottjua

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25 Nov 2006 - 7:07 PM

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Thanks for posting that and sharing...

Just for reference here's a link for my original post on the Fred Miranda site forums:

my thread on FredMiranda boards

I have posted in in various places (rob galbraith, nikonians, etc.) and some have other discussion and follow ups.

However, as soon as our wedding schedule calms down and I get caught up on wedding work and have some free time (early 07 possibly), I intend to update my settings and findings and will post that here as well. These settings above and in the thread I pasted a link to should be a decent starting point, as I have modified them over time, and will do again soon since I have found that the same settings can use a little tweaking if you shoot with a D2HS and a D2H. The two cameras seem to capture color information slightly differently and to my eye I can see it at times.

Hope this helps everyone in some small way. ^_^