Reader Comment: Camera Profiles
Walter K in Austria writes:
First want to say thank you for your hard work and extreme effort - your site really helps to detect the right toys for myself. Focus-shifts, field curvatures…. last I detected my self years ago with an extreme Nikon 2.8/17-55mm… (no review mentioned it…)/
Now using Sony A7 cameras… Zeiss lenses, Sony lenses, Sony Zeiss glass and interested in Sigma Art lenses - last ones are warmer in tone… green looks a bit yellowish. And I am again thinking how to make all these cool and good optics more similar…
I am using now with big success the Lumariver software to calculate camera profiles for Capture One. The only software on market which calculate the specific C1 profiles correct. If you just try it with test shoots from imaging-resource website containing the big Xrite ColorChecker SG targets - you get really first good results. Skin tones… much better… and so on… So it works - cool guys from Lumariver.
Next thing I want to try… controlled test shoots for profiling cameras… if you have good working setup and light - it is quite easy. And to do specific profiles for favorite optics. I assume the profile is the best option to work in good way on complete gamut. specific color casts - not only color temperature. To get a more even, let us say similar result - with a hood Batis and a cool Sigma Art 40 F1.4… Did you every try that?
PS: Your MacPerformanceGuide is top too. The only source to give photographers good concrete advice. Greetings from Austria!
DIGLLOYD: lenses indeed do vary in color, but more than that it’s about the spectral transmission, particularly in the blues (which of course alters the color). The differences can matter to those looking for a certain style.
One major challenge for outdoor shooters is there are major changes in tint with even modest changing in color temperature, a challenge I face frequently in my outdoor shooting (and for which I regularly correct). So as far as I can tell, one might need numerous profiles for different lighting situations in order to correct for tint.
Lumariver is at https://www.lumariver.com (they really should make that https).
Maybe I will try again with camera profiles, but I have been sorely disappointed with camera profiling software before.