Does Canon sabotage image quality for Lightroom users?

[helloandyhihi]

In Adobe's Lightroom forum, I noted that when I bring an image into Digital Photo Professional 4, I get better grain, detail, sharpness, and contrast than in Lightroom.

An Adobe employee replied, "Most camera companies like to reserve their in-camera processing (their “secret sauce”) for their own software, like Canon does with DPP, and will not share it with other applications like Lightroom."

But DPP isn't a practical everyday application for me. As a freelance journalist, I usually come back with hundreds of images and I bring them into Lightroom by default. I quickly rank and select images, caption, perform minimal edits and export 3-20 at a time.

Unlike Lightroom, DPP is more about editing one-off images. It's not realistic for managing so many photos so quickly. 

• Is it true that Canon isn't helpful to Adobe when it tries to support Canon cameras?
• If so, why wouldn't Canon acknowledge that Lightroom is vital to many of its users and help us achieve the best quality possible? 

Is there a way to achieve the wonderful grain, detail, sharpness, and contrast that comes through upon import to DPP in Lightroom? 

[In the Adobe forum, people recommended that I create presets to mimic DPP. But, also because I'm a journalist, I only make the most minimal adjustments to images, I'm not skilled at fine-tuning things in Lightroom. I have tried, but I definitely have not been able to create such a preset.] [I shoot with a 5D Mark IV]

[ebiggs1]

"Lightroom's principal advantage over DPP is in cataloguing, not in editing."

Total nonsense Robert. You simply do not know how to use LR if you think truly that.

"Pro photographers tend to use what everybody else uses ..., even if it isn't necessarily the best solution for a given individual."

Again total nonsense.  People that make a living with their cameras use what makes them money.  And generally that is the "best".  Hallmark had all the money in the world.  They could use whatever they wanted but they like almost every other large and small pro shop, they chose LR/PS.

I can almost see the OP's point, if everybody wants LR/PS why not licence Adobe or whatever legal term and offer assistance.

Even though it is free most people don't bother to d/l DPP4 or let alone use it.

[romanthoney]

Lightroom is no longer the Go to for photo editing. Atleast not as dominant. .I do think the CR3 files from canon are not fully covered in LR. I use to dpp for initial processing. Its been shown alot of what adobe does is sort of rigged in the metadata for Cr3

[Peter]

There are a lot of things in raw files from Canon not covered in other raw converters. Lens correction data is one thing that is embedded in the raw files. Is it possible to use?

[ebiggs1]

"Lightroom is no longer the Go to for photo editing."

This is a very old thread guys but LR/PS are to go to standards and they will be for the foreseeable future. If you think not you simply don't get out enough.

[John_SD]

Sabotage? No, this is just another debunked conspiracy theory.