mek wrote:
how hostile people seem to be against in camera functions.
I'm not sure people are hostile against in-camera functions, it's just that Lightroom doesn't attend to them, so if you are going to use Lightroom, you need to adapt. The camera emulation profiles coupled with some ADL presets get you pretty darn close to what you have in camera, if you haven't customized the picture styles in camera too much I mean, and if you have, then the equivalent in Lightroom world is custom camera calibration profiles. So, is the problem:
A. That you want settings applied automatically to emulate in-camera functions, or
B. That even after manually (or otherwise) applying settings, you're not liking the results as well, or
C. You don't know what settings to apply,
From your post above, it seems like "all of the above", begging the question: why don't you:
A. Use a plugin which automates assignment of Lr settings based on camera settings, if that's really important to you.
B. Learn how to get better results than what your camera can do - if you can't, then you're using the wrong tool.
C. see B...
I mean, I don't have a lot of influence over what Adobe does, nor does anybody else in this forum really, so the best we can do is help you get the results you want, using Lightroom as it is today - if you want to complain to Adobe that you're not able to get as good results as camera, or it should be automated etc., this is the wrong forum for that: try the Adobe feedback forum instead.
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