[argyllcms] Re: Noob camera profiling question
- From: Jannes Bolten <jannesbolten@xxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:53:30 +0200
Thank you all for your comments. I forgot to mention indeed that the purpose of
my question was for use with general purpose photography. Considering my own
experiences and your kind comments I have decided to let the matter rest. I
don't see myself doing much reproduction work, and I'll spend my time on making
images rather than profiling my camera.
Jannes
On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Stephen T wrote:
> I've wasted much time on profiles and then realised it's one thing to have a
> good profile but it also needs to work with your raw photo processing
> software.
>
> After rediscovering Raw Therapee, I'm getting much better results with simple
> matrix profiles. I use RGB curves and contrast to render the image (from
> neutral scene referred to output referred).
>
> In recent testing, I found the Color Checker 24 is satisfactory for matrix
> profiles, giving similar output accuracy to the Color Checker SG (140
> patches). Then you'll need to take a photo with good light, uniform
> illumination, no glare and expose to the right without clipping.
>
> SLT.
>
> From: Jannes Bolten <jannesbolten@xxxxxxx>
> To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 1:14 AM
> Subject: [argyllcms] Noob camera profiling question
>
> Hello.
>
> This is a noob question.
>
> I'm a photographer and am tinkering with the idea of profiling my camera. The
> reason I haven't done so already is that it seems there are too many factors
> that make a camera profile unusable in practice. In the past I have tried to
> make a profile for my D3 using Lprof, but never got it quite right. However,
> I didn't spend much energy and time on trying different settings and testing.
> (Except for shooting my target…) Nevertheless, I'd like to give it another
> try with ArgyllCMS.
>
> Is there a recommended process for making camera profiles with ArgyllCMS? (I
> mean aside from shooting the target. I'm more interested in learning about
> how a custom profile would fit into my regular digital photography workflow,
> mostly RAW conversion.)
>
> And more specifically:
>
> Does ArgyllCMS make the profiles straight from NEF (Nikon RAW) files, or does
> it require a TIF of the target?
>
> Does it even make sense to create a profile if the RAW conversion software
> doesn't offer an option for specifying input profiles? Big companies'
> software like Adobe Camera Raw and Nikon Capture NX2 don't have an option for
> this. I remember that C1 Pro by PhaseOne does allow for custom input
> profiles, and a small company's application called Iridient RAW Developer
> does too.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
>
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