LR2 B&W problems

[Csae]

Anyone have this annoying problem where you're shooting in black&white on the camera and lightroom decides to switch to color when it imports?

I have a pre-set b&w in my camera and when lightroom switches it, it kinda fucks it up where i need to actually work the photo to get it back to what i shot it as.

Not to mention its a heck more work for my contact sheets after : (

Anyone know a way to tell lr2 to stop switching em ? i couldn't find anything in the settings and google just keeps pointing me to tutorials about other stuff.

[K1W1]

Maybe you might like to modify the language and repost in the software section of the forum.

[Csae]

Im not sure what you mean by modify the language ?

And i went in the software section and got this :

"There have been no posts in the last 30 days in this forum."

So, i thought it useless to post in there at this point.

I managed to get a useful post from the LR forum, aparently this isn't supported at all. Though they are trying to with some beta profiles and editors.

[D Thompson]

#1 I don't know why you'd shoot b&w in-camera, but anyway.........If you're shooting RAW then that's the way it works, at least on a Canon. The b&w is a picture style and would be applied if you opened up in DPP. Adobe doesn't really recognize the in-camera picture styles. Only advice I can give you is to make the settings a preset in LR where you can apply it to the image.

[Csae]

Because thats how i started & what im used to. If anything i turn the image to color in pp.

I find this a big problem though, not just for black&whites but i mean for picture styles in general, i have my sharpness/contrast/etc all set to something and it would get taken off in lr2, not to mention that in b&w i usually use a red filter.

I downloaded their camera profiles and profile editor betas, i'll give em try when i get some free time.

[D Thompson]

Because thats how i started & what im used to. If anything i turn the image to color in pp.

I find this a big problem though, not just for black&whites but i mean for picture styles in general, i have my sharpness/contrast/etc all set to something and it would get taken off in lr2, not to mention that in b&w i usually use a red filter.

I downloaded their camera profiles and profile editor betas, i'll give em try when i get some free time.

The camera profiles will get you a better start, but I don't think they will still allow LR to apply the in-camera picture styles, especially the b&w. The profiles are Standard, Neutral, Faithful, Landscape, & Portrait. AFAIK only DPP will do the b&w style. Once you get the settings in LR to approximate your picture styles then save it as a preset and in the future all you have to do is apply the preset.