Match the colors of two digital cameras

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erablesycomore

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Hello,
I have two digital cameras. I love the color rendition of one of these cameras, and I would like the other camera to have the same "color rendering"...

One solution would be to shoot the same "color target" with both cameras, and then design an ICC profile that transforms colors of one camera to the other...

(Another solution would be that both camera are calibrated to standard color target, but with this method, I would loose the (not calibrated) colors of the camera that I love! I would like to keep these colors)

Have anyone done this ?

GretagMacbeth Profile Maker ?

Any other idea ?

Thanks
 
You can do this easily by using the Xrite Colorchecker Passport. Basically its a small pocket-able color chart you shoot a picture of and then process in the Xrite software or in lightroom directly.

If you use lightroom, you can then select the color profile made. Just make sure you shoot the chart with both cameras. Turn each of those two shots into a color profile in lightroom. (takes no work aside from clicking "export to xrite". Then apply that setting to all the shots in the series. Each profile will only be available to corresponding cameras so you cant mix them up. Plus you can name the profiles.

Works great. I have even used three different cameras on set before. The colors look very consistent between the files after this. I often use a 5DmkII and an M8 together in the studio. This tool is invaluable!

I think its only like $99 too or something. Can't remember. It has a great white balance patch built in too.
 
Are they the same camera or two different cameras by two different manufactuers?
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Two different manufacturers.
One is a Pentax DSLR (I don't really like its colors, they are just normal, but nothing special).
Another is a cheap Canon compact (quality is not very good, but the colors are great!).

I want to create an ICC profile that transforms the colors of a shot made with the Pentax into "Canon" colors.


AncientCityPhoto said:
You can do this easily by using the Xrite Colorchecker Passport. Basically its a small pocket-able color chart you shoot a picture of and then process in the Xrite software or in lightroom directly.
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If I'm not wrong, with Xrite Colorchecker Passport, i'll be able to do :
Camera 1 -> calibrated colors
Camera 2 -> calibrated colors
Thus they will be matched.

But what I want is to have on Camera 2 the same colors than Camera 1. I don't want to have "standardized" colors for both cameras.
Do you see the difference ?
Do you think this will be possible ?

Cheers
 
erablesycomore said:
But what I want is to have on Camera 2 the same colors than Camera 1. I don't want to have "standardized" colors for both cameras.
Do you see the difference ?
Do you think this will be possible ?
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I am not aware of any ready software that would use a camera profile as a new non-standard target - usually the targeting process goes the other way around, that is, targets are theoretically defined rather than found. But it should not be that hard to write your own software, starting from some of the available open source colour profiling software kits.
 
sevo said:
I am not aware of any ready software that would use a camera profile as a new non-standard target - usually the targeting process goes the other way around, that is, targets are theoretically defined rather than found. But it should not be that hard to write your own software, starting from some of the available open source colour profiling software kits.
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If we consider
profile ICC1 = Camera 1 ----> standard target
profile ICC2 = Camera 2 ----> standard target

If we want with Camera 2 the same colors than Camera 1, we just need to apply to the shots made with Camera2 the following process :

ICC2 and "inverse of" ICC1


Is there a software that is able to "inverse" an ICC profile ?
 
As far as I'm aware, you can use Adobe's DNG Profile Editor to create a custom LR/ACR profile for the camera whose color you want matched to the other. Basically, shoot a chart with the camera who's colors you like, then shoot a chart with the one you want adjusted. Open the RAW in the DNG editor, then adjust the individual color points to match the colors from the camera you like. Save the profile and then use it for the 2nd camera to dupe the first's colors.
 
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