Resurrecting this thread as I've sort of figured out how this works - for anyone using Lightroom as a RAW converter for the X-Pro1 here's something interesting to note.
I've built a couple profiles but it's pretty evident to me that the raw files out of the camera via Lightroom are pretty, well, "normal" looking.
It took some playing around with my D700 in Lightroom to figure out that there are custom profiles which exist for the D700 (I always knew they were there but rarely used them) which can be applied to a variety of images/situations that a photographer may want/encounter.
I had noted that the Fuji X-Pro1 was lacking any profiles within Lightroom. So, I went ahead and bought a 24 colour target (X-Rite Color Checker Passport) and decided to play around a bit. The Color Checker Passport comes with software and plug-ins for LightRoom which will assist in building profiles for the camera. You can also download the Adobe DNG Profile Editor direct from Adobe and it too can assist in building profiles as long as you have a 24 colour target. I've tried both methods and they're both an improvement over the Adobe Standard profile (in my opinion) but the Adobe DNG Profile editor produces "better" (for the lack of better wording) profiles for the camera however YMMV.
If you are unfamiliar as to where to locate the profiles in Lightroom; they can be found within the "Develop" module, on the far right hand side under the "Camera Calibration" panel. They are within the "Profile" drop down.
Here is a "before" sample of a Fuji RAW image converted to jpeg and resized for the web via Lightroom and Photoshop:
And here is the exactly same image after applying my "Fuji X-Pro1 Daylight Overcast" profile:
I usually apply the camera profiles before doing any further adjustments to the image (i.e. before adjusting exposure, highlight recovery, etc.)
My plan now is to create profiles for each type of shooting scenario such as daylight direct sun, daylight shade, night, interior available fluorescent, interior available tungsten, flash bounce, flash direct and so on.
Cheers,
Dave