Originally posted by DogLover I suspect I know the answer, but I have LR 5.7 and I assume I can't update to any newer version without converting to CC, but is there any way to update just the camera profiles so that it will handle RAW files from my new K-1 II?
You can still update to LR 6.x (perpetual) and you will require at least that major version in order to have full Adobe Standard and K-1ii Camera ("bright", "landscape", "natural", etc.) support for
both PEF and DNG. If shooting with DNG only, LR 5.7 will support your camera's files, but with the embedded profile only. The catch is that even the most recent update for LR 6 lacks the camera profile files for the K-1ii. Getting them is not hard, but actually using them requires jumping through a few hoops.
First of all, one should be clear on what the camera profile (.dcp) files do and what they don't do. In short, they contain instructions for the RAW processor on how to best massage the capture data for a good initial rendering (e.g. "Adobe Standard" or "embedded") or to render with an intended special effect (e.g. "Vivid", "Sepia", and such). The are also specific to DNG unless the camera has native support for the Lightroom or ACR version being used. It is also possible to create special custom profiles for specific lighting or subjects. Camera profiles do NOT provide support for camera features such as pixel shift or HDR. They are also NOT the same as Lightroom presets; the profiles are applied as part of much lower levels of processing and leave the sliders in their default positions. They are also not the same as icc color profiles, though there are some similarities.
So, where are these profile files? For most Lightroom installations they will be found at:
HTML Code:
-- LR installation directory
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-- Resources
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-- CameraProfiles
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-- Adobe Standard
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-- Camera
Conspicuously absent will be files for your K-1ii. Without them, LR will
not be able to process PEF at all and will default to the embedded profile found within the DNG file. There is nothing wrong with the embedded profile except that its look will be somewhat different than that of "Adobe Standard" or whatever profile you might want to use instead. While even the most recent versions of LR 6 lack the .dcp files for the K-1ii, it is still possible to get profile files for it and for all other cameras supported in the most recent versions of ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) through the Adobe DNG Converter tool. While the primary purpose of the DNG Converter is to create DNG from proprietary RAW and various image files, it also comes bundled with a full collection of camera profiles current to the date of the converter version. In other words, the current version of the DNG Converter copies the profile files for the K-1ii to the computer hard drive as part of the install procedure from which they may be copied for other purposes.
The DNG Converter tool may be downloaded from:
Adobe Digital Negative Converter
Follow the instructions for installation and continue as directed below.
Happily, one does not need to convert any files to make use of the bundled .dcp profile files. Instead, one merely needs to find them and copy them to the directories used by Lightroom for the user's custom profile files. For Windows the bundled profile files will be found someplace similar to this:
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C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
Note that the "ProgramData" directory may be a hidden system directory, but exists none-the-less. If unable to find the profile file directory, do a file search for *.dcp (all files with the .dcp extension).
When the profiles are found for the K-1ii, copy them to the user's custom profile directory. For Windows, the user's custom profile directory might be something like this:
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C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
I know this is a little complex, but may be worth the effort. At one time, there were detailed instructions from Adobe, but those seem to have evaporated.
Steve
(...is currently able to use K-1ii profiles from LR 6 with no difficulty, as well as hacked K-3ii profiles for use with K-3 files...)