Ben - You should do a test with Basiccolor Input to check that your Dcraw settings are ok. Although I'm not sure whether the current Basiccolor is working well. Graeme - For "accurate" SLR profiling what one really needs is simply to establish the primaries - a matrix, no shaper or LUT is sufficient. There should be an option for this in Argyll. Although for all I know there already is :) Edmund On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Ben Goren<ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009 Sep 8, at 2:08 PM, edmund ronald wrote: > >> At the risk of repeating the obvious, as usual, if you use the dcraw >> output to create a profile with Argyll, do you then have bad results >> when applying the same profile to the dcraw output ? > > Edmund, > > Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. I develop a RAW image with the target > dominating the frame with a TIFF file as the output. I feed that TIFF file > to Argyll to build a profile, and then apply that profile to the exact same > TIFF file. > > If I create the TIFF file with ACR with the image close to the proper > exposure, white balance, etc., the results are great. When I create a linear > TIFF file with dcraw...well...it's not even close. > > Cheers, > > b&