Optimizing 5DII settings for Lightroom3

New to Lightroom. I have used DPP to change picture styles and settings but I don't see a way to change the picture style in Lightroom and I would like to know what settings you use in camera and why.

Thanks in advance.

jetcode wrote in post #11418275
New to Lightroom. I have used DPP to change picture styles and settings but I don't see a way to change the picture style in Lightroom and I would like to know what settings you use in camera and why.

Thanks in advance.

The camera settings apply only to jpgs not RAW files, so when using LR they are irrelevant. DPP sees the notation of the camera settings, including the Picture Style, and automatically uses the same settings as its starting point, but LR can't read the Canon code. However, LR does offer a choice of Camera Profiles that you can select manually which are very similar to Canon's Picture Styles in terms of color rendition (and are titled similarly). But Picture Styles also change contrast, saturation and sharpness and in LR these are independent settings that you will have to determine for yourself.

Although the camera settings do not apply to the RAW, they do affect the review image displayed on the camera's lcd and, more importantly, the histogram. For this reason many RAW shooters have their cameras set to the Neutral or Faithful Picture Styles, because the others can misleadingly inflate the histogram.

Awesome and thank you for that great piece of information.

Joe, like Elie mentioned LR has camera Profiles -- you find them in the Calibration panel at the bottom of the Develop module at the right hand side. You will notice that they have two sets, an Adobe set and a Camera set, and they have names that parallel camera Picture Styles, but don't have the "dramatic" affect that you get with a "complete" Picture Style, they are more subtle color/tone curve adjustments. Experiment -- some prefer, say, Adobe Standard, others one of the Neutral or whatever -- they are a "starting point", not for the "finished product". It's still nice to have DPP on hand, by the way -- you may have a shoot that would produce fine out-of-the-camera jpegs and DPP can be cool and quick for that.

More awesome information. Thanks Tony.