Hi Terri,
What does QU report as the profile for the image modified by Adobe? You can see what it is in the exif bar below the thumbnails - hover over the thumb, it's the last item in the information. If between asterisks it is embedded.
Qimage shows adobe.icm for the converted images.
I suspect Adobe is converting to Adobe RGB.
No, it definitely doesn't. The converted DNG-files don't have any embedded ICC-profile after conversion (original camera DNG-files also don't have embedded ICC-profiles).
If you want a larger resolution embedded jpeg, extract in QU by placing image in queue, right click and choose Extract Embedded Images. You can then resize in QU using the conversion feature.
But this procedure doesn't produce a larger embedded preview.
Does you camera produce a reduced size embedded jpeg.
Yes it does. Adobe DNG Converter is an easy way for a larger preview. It doesn't simply resize the embedded preview (as it makes no sense to resize a small pixelated image) - it creates a new preview from raw data. The larger embedded preview is needed bedause it is used in my DAM (IMatch) or when double clicking DNG-files in Windows Explorer.
As both the original and converterd DNG-files have no embedded ICC-profile and both show the correct camera model in Qimage's "Display Image Info" it should be possible to use the custom profile.