Lightrooms 5.2 & Windows 8.1

snips86x · 2 Mar 2014 at 09:30

I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 and I've been doing through some pictures I took of my son in B&W in Lightrooms v4.

I exported these as I normally do, from RAW to JPG, after some tinkering, but it would seem that v4 has issues with the conversion process on Windows 8.1.

Upgraded to Lightrooms v5.2 and it is just as bad.

The B&W images with just don't tone very well, they are blotchy and look pixelated. However, when reviewing them in LR, they are fine. This leads me to believe there maybe an incompatibility or possible plug in?

Has anyone come across this yet/before?

Example:
The one on the right is the RAW in LR, the one on the left if the JPG. Export settings JPEG set to 100% quality. This was as screenshot

James J · 2 Mar 2014 at 12:40

5.3 is the latest version of lightroom 5 so try that first mate.

ElDude · 2 Mar 2014 at 13:40

I've had a similar problem in the past with old plugins that don't work on newer versions of lightroom. Try sourcing new ones, if that's what you're doing. Failing that check the colour profile just to check it hasn't reset to something odd.

snips86x · 13 Mar 2014 at 19:33

Update

I've spent the last few hours playing with my 7D and on processing the RAW files, it would seem that even at 100ISO, I'm having an issue with serious noise and an inability to contrast colours.

Could this have been caused by dropping my camera?

Full Res:

Columbo · 14 Mar 2014 at 00:37

I had a similar problem a while back. I fixed it by using Calibrize to create a new display profile.

snips86x · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:45

Columbo said:
I had a similar problem a while back. I fixed it by using Calibrize to create a new display profile.

THANKYOU!!!!

I've been searching for something like this for ages now!! Looking forward to trying it!

snips86x · 16 Mar 2014 at 10:25

Monitor has been recalibrated I've updated Lightrooms to v5.3. Some of the issues appear to have gone away, but I'm not sure if this is down to my testing methods or the LR update.

When testing my Sigma 17-55mm on a subject which is 2 feet away, there is no noise or grain in the image on the camera or putting through LR. This was using the AF.

When using the same lens and AF but taking a landscape shot, there is slight noise & grain in the image.

If I take a picture of the same landscape (garden) and use manual, the effect is dramatically reduced and only appears in the more shaded parts of the image.

Would this be seen as a processing issue? There is nothing like this when zooming in on the image while it's still on the camera.

Canon 7D with Sigma DC 17-55mm EX HSM.