In another post, I read the following:  "Your camera model will find the correct profile when you open raw images. Just hover your mouse over the raw thumbnail, and you will see the camera profile color space tagged on to your image information in the hot bar."

My main camera is an Olympus PEN-F, but I also still use a Nikon D7000.  For both, the EXIF Hot Bar shows "ICC: adobe.icm".  Looking in the QU profiles directory (ddisoftware\Qimage\profiles), I noticed that there is no camera profile for the PEN-F, but there is a file named PEN-F_ORF.qsn.  I also noticed that there was no camera profile for the Nikon D7000.  (Color space in both cameras is set to adobe.)

I've come across rants elsewhere about how Olympus isn't very forthcoming with their proprietary file format data, which might tend to hamper things.  And I didn't find any lens profiles.

So are lens and camera profiles still relevant in QU for raw processing?  If they are, is there anything a non-techie can do to assist in developing them?  Send EXIF data (exiftool), or pix of the "secret sauce"?  Or should I just go back to sleep and pretend I'm just dreaming this matter?  ;~)

--George

Your bad luck?   


Yes!  I did so provide such permission.  I was going to make a screen cap and post it, but it is identical to yours.

The only "Olympus PEN-F" CM files on my machine are:
Olympus PEN-F Adobe Standard.dcp
Olympus PEN-F Camera Monotone.dcp
Olympus PEN-F Camera Muted.dcp
Olympus PEN-F Camera Natural.dcp
Olympus PEN-F Camera Portrait.dcp

... all in the \ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\ directory.

Where would the QU camera profiles be?  I found your EOS 50D profile, and a few for older Oly cameras, and several Nikon models (D70, older than D7000; D750, newer).  And as I wrote, I did find "PEN-F_ORF.qsn" but it's just a tiny text file. 

And if they are on my machine, shouldn't they show in my EXIF Hot Bar, instead of just adobe.icm?

See why I'm so confused?


I know:  I copy & pasted that "how-to copy & paste" into my QU notes.

I'm starting to wonder if there's more than one of you!  And/or whether you ever sleep?

Whatever it is, keep on doing it.

Continuing thanks,

--George

p.s.-- Stay tuned, I have another query coming up.

Hi Fred,

No apologies needed.  And thanks for the extra effort on the profile info.

And yes, Challenge #80 is excellent.  Not just for .qsn files, but the sharpening info is also good.  (Another Challenge that should have a mainstream reference -- like here!   )

--George

[EDIT / UPDATE]  Just stumbled across the post in a http://ddisoftware.com/tech/cameras/new-camera-profiles.  I'll contact Mike directly.