Canned or custom camera profiles?
Canned or custom camera profiles?
- Subject: Canned or custom camera profiles?
- From: "Chris McFarling" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:45:46 -0400
I've been reading up on the subject of camera profiling to try to get a
better understanding of the current state of things. From what I gather it
seems there are two camps. In one camp are those who believe camera
profiling is more or less a waste of time and the Adobe Camera RAW workflow
is most effcient and effective. On the flip side are those who swear they
can achive better results with camera profiles and a conversion app that
supports them, such as CaptureOne. It seems there are compelling arguments
on both sides of the issue.
Without delving into that whole argument, I'm curious about the profile
based workflow, mainly in regards to CaptureOne. PhaseOne supplies many
canned camera profiles for use with it's software. If one is to use a
profile workflow, is it better to create custom profiles or do the supplied
profiles do an adequate job?
When talking in terms of printers or monitors it seems that the answer to
that question is almost always to use custom profiles over canned profiles
if you want accurate color. But I'm not sure if that same logic holds up for
cameras. Since a camera profile represents a specific set of conditions,
once you deviate from those conditions, the profile is no longer providing
the best result possible. With that in mind I come to the conclusion that if
you shoot under the exact same conditions as were in place when the profile
was created, then a custom profile could be of benefit. If your shooting
conditions differ from the profiling conditions, which for most users I
would suspect would be the majority of the time, then you'll be making some
corrections anyway so a canned profile may be just as usefull. Is there any
reason not to think that?
So would it not stand to reason then that shooting in CaptureOne with a
canned camera profile is nearly the same as bringing your RAW file into ACR
and processing it with ACRs built in "profiles"? In both cases the input
profile, whether it be an actual ICC profile in C1 or the equivalent of an
ICC profile in ACR, most likely does not represent the shooting conditions
so there's some inevitable user applied corrections in play.
Chris McFarling
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