Re: Feedback on success, creating another! camera profile
Re: Feedback on success, creating another! camera profile
- Subject: Re: Feedback on success, creating another! camera profile
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 12:24:50 -0700
If it's critical colorimetric accuracy you're after, you're not going to get that with Adobe raw development engines. That's not what they're designed for, and certainly not what they're optimized for. If that's your goal, you're going to have to use a different tool for raw development (though many Adobe tools are very useful for other typical workflow tasks, including those where colorimetric accuracy is important).
No 24-patch chart is going to produce good profiles, though the ColorChecker is actually a darned good 24-patch chart. No 50-patch chart is going to do the trick, either, though the Passport is as good a real-world 50-patch chart as you're ever going to find.
In theory, *any* chart is going to be better than *no* chart, but I haven't found enough of an improvement to recommend creating DNG profiles with a classic ColorChecker. If that's all you've got as an option, yes, do it -- but you're really only bailing water a bit faster and you haven't done anything about the hole in the hull.
I'm still hoping this week to do a writeup of my own workflow. And the ColorChecker (Passport, though the Classic is a not-awful substitute) plays an important, though far from sufficient or even irreplaceable, role in said workflow. Where the ColorChecker really shines is in perfectly -- and I do mean perfectly -- nailing white balance and exposure, which are the first and in many ways most critical parts of the whole process.
Cheers,
b&
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