How to set up the camera for lightroom

[gaffer]

Ok, I have:

1DsMkIII and Adobe Lightroom

To date, I have been shooting raw with a "standard" profile, then fiddling with things in LR when they look like they need fixing.

But that means that I have two tools trying to do the same thing.

First, the camera applies AWB, sharpness, contrast, saturation and colour tone.

Then I get to mess with all of these again in LR.

Would I be better off setting the camera to "Neutral" (zero for sharpness, contrast, saturation and colour tone) and doing all the work in LR?

Andrew

 

[Janice]

The picture styles dont affect RAW images so it doesnt matter which one you put on in the camera.

 

[Marcel]

It doesn't actually affect them, but I believe Lightroom now reads the picture style associated with them.

 

[Chappers]

Andrew

On my Canon I have set everything to "neutral". WB is set to daylight, and I sort out the rest in Lightroom.

The only time I may change a setting is if I am shooting under Tungsten or similar. Just helps me to see how the image has been captured on the Histogram.

Don't forget in LR you'll need a fair bit of sharpening/ detail to overcome the anti aliasing filter on the 1Ds lll