what camera is this ? On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009 Sep 8, at 11:35 PM, Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Ben Goren<ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 2009 Sep 8, at 2:07 PM, Pascal de Bruijn wrote: >>> >>>> I'm getting pretty decent results, using UFRaw and an IT8 target... so >>>> I'm guessing it should be possible for DCRaw as well... >>> >>> Pascal, >>> >>> Are you using linear RAW files, or are you getting ``close enough'' and >>> then >>> refining the results? >> >> No, I'm using linear RAW files... >> >> The results are pretty good, but not perfect... I'm using >> single-shaper matrix profiles, which have gotten me the best results >> thus far... >> >> My method: >> http://blog.pcode.nl/2008/11/15/color-profiling-your-own-dslr-redux/ >> >> I'm still refining it a bit... but the general idea works well. > > I did a bit of experimentation and got some pretty good results: > >> profile check complete, peak err = 7.518615, avg err = 0.855233 > > I used UFRaw to get the channel multipliers for the white balance by > selecting most of the area of one of the neutral patches. > > Next, I used dcraw for the actual conversion: > >> dcraw -v -r 2.474 1.000 1.335 1.000 -o 0 -4 -T _MG_1397.CR2 > > > I then created a profile with each type of algorithm, and discovered that an > XYZ LUT profile gave significantly better results than any of the others -- > according to the numbers, visually, and by checking with an eyedropper in > Photoshop. > > I'm sure I'll do at least some more experimentation, but this should be good > enough. If anybody has any suggestions as to make it even better...I'm all > ears, of course. > > Thanks all for the help! > > Cheers, > > b&