Thanks for the clarifications, Derrick, but this part makes no sense to me:
"Neither Nikon or Canon software will allow you to load your custom profile into their apps yet since they only "embed" srgb or adobe rgb they are still friendly to profiling through them. In this case you can simply load or "assign" your new custom profile once you are in Photoshop with the final tiff or jpeg."
Ill try to clear this.................
Nikon and Canon software force you to choose a workspace "destination" Your choices are Adobe RGB, Nikon RGB, Srgb all depending on which application you have. These workspaces get "embedded" and are not applied to the actual data. Thats what i mean by "friendly".
Since you can gray balance, and set exposure and control the processing used you can profile predictibly through the application. The limitation being that once you have done this to construct your new profile you cannot load it in the application as you can in C1. The profile will have to be assigned by you the user in Photoshop as a last step. The profile will still be valid. You will replace whatever your camera software embedded at the time of process.
Capture allows you to pick an output profile of your choice, including, say, ProPhoto, and the image is then rendered into this space. How can this be "friendly" to custom profile generation? There is no way to output a TIFF that has not been converted from Nikon's internal profiles to an output profile - you cannot turn color management off. You guys even told me as much at (?) the PIA-GATF CM conference in Phoenix last year.
NO, when processing through C1 you do not pick a destination space. In the Gray balance window you pick a profile. FOr profiling purposes you would pick "No Color COrrection". Then in the process window you have a "Destination" pull down window. Choose "Use Embedded" . This will not process to anything. Once you land in Photoshop with you file you will have an attached profile called "No Color Correction. Strip it off. Construct your new custom profile. Then when you relaunch C1 go back to the gray balance window and select your new custom profile. From that point forward process to whatever destination space you desire, including Prophoto rgb. You will choose that in the process dialog window as a destination.
What will result is a raw capture will get converted from your new custom profile to your chosen destination space, as an added benefit you can also choose a rendering intent.
Lastly, the NO COLOR CORRECTION only got added after relentless griping for several months and it ended up in 3.7!(it wasnt there in Phoenix ; )
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