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thanks.
looks good, will load it onto the mac when i get home tonight.
looks good, will load it onto the mac when i get home tonight.
kalex
Established
Thanks for the explanation Sam. Looks like my choice is pretty much either keep convenience of lightroom and spend longer time converting and fiddling with adjustments or suffer with Epson for less time spent adjusting settings.
Also will try DNG see if it makes my life easier but you are right adobe is here to stay. i just wish more manufacturers would use DNG as its raw format
Also will try DNG see if it makes my life easier but you are right adobe is here to stay. i just wish more manufacturers would use DNG as its raw format
Jim-st
Well-known
I've been using LR since beta 1 way back to process images from my DSLR's and more recently from my RD1. I've read up a lot over the years about the issues of colour management that are at the bottom of much of the foregoing discussion here. My conclusion was some time ago that it'd be worthwhile to shell out for the then-Gretag Macbeth/ now xrite 24-patch Mini Colour Checker card (see attached jpeg). I bought mine from BH as that was cheaper than buying one in the UK at the time.
Once equipped with the card, the procedure is as follows:
1. take a photo of the card. This should be an ERF RAW file. Good exposure is important, and be sure not to blow out the highlights.
2. download from Adobe Labs the DNG Profile Editor application, and follow the procedure for profile generation here
3. save the profile (I named mine R-D1 Daylight Profile), and open LR (or ACR). The profile will be available in LR's Import Presets menu, and aslo in the Develop Module under Camera Calibration.
I've always been happy with the colour treatment applied by this method, and it is a profile uniquely relevant to my camera's output. Not so with the built-in processing applied by proprietary apps like Canon DPP or Epson Photolier
Hope this helps... but please note there's no point at all in messing with this stuff unless you keep your monitor colour calibrated on a regular basis
(Historical note: back in 2004 when I got my first DSLR there was no DNG and no DNG Profile Editor software. The late Bruce Fraser worked out the RGB numbers for the Macbeth card and described a method of using the Exposure, White Balance, Brightness, Contrast and colour Calibration controls, sampling the 5 grey patches and the R, G & B patches, and tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking to try to get the RGB numbers on screen to match those for the real world card. I spent an afternoon on this, and got little but frustration and self-doubt from the experience. Later a guy called Thomas Fors of chromaholics devised a script that could calibarte the card-image in about 90 mins. Today the DNG Profile Editor does it in much less than the blink of an eye. Worth a look, IMHO)
Once equipped with the card, the procedure is as follows:
1. take a photo of the card. This should be an ERF RAW file. Good exposure is important, and be sure not to blow out the highlights.
2. download from Adobe Labs the DNG Profile Editor application, and follow the procedure for profile generation here
3. save the profile (I named mine R-D1 Daylight Profile), and open LR (or ACR). The profile will be available in LR's Import Presets menu, and aslo in the Develop Module under Camera Calibration.
I've always been happy with the colour treatment applied by this method, and it is a profile uniquely relevant to my camera's output. Not so with the built-in processing applied by proprietary apps like Canon DPP or Epson Photolier
Hope this helps... but please note there's no point at all in messing with this stuff unless you keep your monitor colour calibrated on a regular basis
(Historical note: back in 2004 when I got my first DSLR there was no DNG and no DNG Profile Editor software. The late Bruce Fraser worked out the RGB numbers for the Macbeth card and described a method of using the Exposure, White Balance, Brightness, Contrast and colour Calibration controls, sampling the 5 grey patches and the R, G & B patches, and tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking to try to get the RGB numbers on screen to match those for the real world card. I spent an afternoon on this, and got little but frustration and self-doubt from the experience. Later a guy called Thomas Fors of chromaholics devised a script that could calibarte the card-image in about 90 mins. Today the DNG Profile Editor does it in much less than the blink of an eye. Worth a look, IMHO)
