ssprengel wrote:
So you're getting Adobe-Camera-Raw Defaults rather than User-Camera-Raw-Defaults in your DNGs as their initial settings which Bridge knows and shows a settings-aren't-default-anymore badge and you have to reset them in Bridge (or maybe ACR), and you're seeing a new Settings choice in the DNG Converter.
Yes, that is essentially correct.
ssprengel wrote:
I am not seeing "a panel-specific toggle between the settings and the default settings" in the DNG Converter 8.6.0.254 which is what is currently on Adobe's site for the PC.
No, it is not in the DNG Converter; it is in ACR (8.6). Down at the lower right-hand side, below the picture frame, there are four toggle buttons. The one to the far right now is a pane-specific toggle between the current slider settings and the custom camera default settings. It appears this feature may have been added in ACR 6.5.