Re: Camera RAW File conversion
Re: Camera RAW File conversion
- Subject: Re: Camera RAW File conversion
- From: Mark Buckner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:11:20 -0500
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I use CaptureOne Pro and PhotoshopCS and see no need to do any
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profiles, but I'm always willing to learn.
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From all that I've read and studied on the subject, I dont believe you
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can profile a digital camera.
Well, if you're really willing to learn, I'd suggest you try the ColorEyes
20/20 profiling package. Although you don't believe you can profile a
digital camera, I just spent several hours yesterday doing just that --- ten
DSLRs in fact. I have been using the ColorEyes product since its inception
with great success.
Shooting under a wide variety of lighting conditions is no problem assuming
you are careful to gray balance when shooting (or afterwards in the raw file
conversion process, with a product like Capture One).
As for profiling through ACR, I can't understand how that would work, since
as it has been explained to me ACR mixes up a combination between two
different "secret" internal profiles, and does so differently from image to
image. That seems to me like trying to build a profile for an Epson printer
without turning off Epson's auto adjustments in their driver... Trying to
hit a moving target.
I really thought we had cussed and discussed the idea of needing a different
profile for every light source and put that myth to bed some time back. Good
gray balance is the great equalizer.
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My experience is that the C1Pro profiles for both the H25 and the S2 is
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a good starting point and with interactive tweaks I get great result
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using strobes, quartz and natural light of all colors.
See, you ARE using profiles, and I'll bet you're gray balancing within C1
also. And the fact that you need to make "interactive tweaks" may indeed be
for the subjective reasons you describe. They also might be needed because
the supplied "generic" profiles are just a bit too generic for your camera.
ColorEyes profiles save me so much time in post production that the time
spent carefully lighting and shooting targets is soon forgotten. Best of
luck.
Mark
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