sleepyhead
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Hi, I hope this is the right form to ask this question. And thanks in advance for your help.
I often use a Leica digital rangefinder with a Canon 35mm lens alongside a Panasonic digital point-and-shoot, say on a trip. When I come home and import the RAW pictures into Lightroom, it’s clear that the two cameras differ in how they represent colours, even if I select Adobe camera-specific profiles for each on import (such as Adobe Standard).
Ideally, I would like all the pictures from the trip to look like they came from the same camera.
My solution to this so far has been to take at least a few pictures of the same subject with each camera and to tweak the Camera Calibration of one of them so they roughly match. (They don’t need to be professionally matched for my needs.) This solution works ok, but is obviously not perfect. I find in particular that how greens are rendered by the 2 cameras is very noticeable if not tweaked.
I know that there are better ways to do this sort of matching and have read and watched lots of stuff (e.g., Xrite Color checker passport), and quite frankly my head is spinning. It’s also not clear to me how much of the difference between the cameras has to do with the different sensors and lenses, and how much due to differences in Auto White Balance of the two cameras (which I always use).
Any tips or tricks would be appreciated. I would like to avoid spending the money on a Color Checker passport if I can. But I would also happily invest some time and money if I can avoid ad hoc tweaks all the time. I would also like to avoid using a White Balance card because on trips I just want to be free and not take pics of the card with each camera under different lighting conditions. (The Color tweaking using Camera Calibration can be done before or after the trip.)
Thanks again for your help.
I often use a Leica digital rangefinder with a Canon 35mm lens alongside a Panasonic digital point-and-shoot, say on a trip. When I come home and import the RAW pictures into Lightroom, it’s clear that the two cameras differ in how they represent colours, even if I select Adobe camera-specific profiles for each on import (such as Adobe Standard).
Ideally, I would like all the pictures from the trip to look like they came from the same camera.
My solution to this so far has been to take at least a few pictures of the same subject with each camera and to tweak the Camera Calibration of one of them so they roughly match. (They don’t need to be professionally matched for my needs.) This solution works ok, but is obviously not perfect. I find in particular that how greens are rendered by the 2 cameras is very noticeable if not tweaked.
I know that there are better ways to do this sort of matching and have read and watched lots of stuff (e.g., Xrite Color checker passport), and quite frankly my head is spinning. It’s also not clear to me how much of the difference between the cameras has to do with the different sensors and lenses, and how much due to differences in Auto White Balance of the two cameras (which I always use).
Any tips or tricks would be appreciated. I would like to avoid spending the money on a Color Checker passport if I can. But I would also happily invest some time and money if I can avoid ad hoc tweaks all the time. I would also like to avoid using a White Balance card because on trips I just want to be free and not take pics of the card with each camera under different lighting conditions. (The Color tweaking using Camera Calibration can be done before or after the trip.)
Thanks again for your help.