What are you doing to match your original 5D with the 5D Mark II in Lightroom? I'm working with the RAW files from both cameras in Lightroom and I'm noticing the Mark II is substantially more saturated.
It's a bit of expense, but I'd recommend buying a GretagMacbeth ColorChecker and creating custom camera profiles.
It should give you more accurate colour from both cameras (more pleasing as well in my opinion) and also help them be a better match. That said, if you're completely happy with the 5D's colour and want the 5D II to match that, I'm not sure how you would accomplish it.
Here's an image I shot that shows how much of an improvement to colour a custom profile makes. First is the Adobe Standard profile, then the Camera Standard profile, and finally the custom one. (which matches what I saw with my eyes)
andrewfee wrote:
It's a bit of expense, but I'd recommend buying a GretagMacbeth ColorChecker and creating custom camera profiles.
It should give you more accurate colour from both cameras (more pleasing as well in my opinion) and also help them be a better match. That said, if you're completely happy with the 5D's colour and want the 5D II to match that, I'm not sure how you would accomplish it.
Here's an image I shot that shows how much of an improvement to colour a custom profile makes. First is the Adobe Standard profile, then the Camera Standard profile, and finally the custom one. (which matches what I saw with my eyes)
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that last moth pic does look by far the best!
(i wonder what faithful and neutral with a bit of slider work look like though since they are often better than adobe or camera standard)
anyway i can't believe i haven't gotten around to doing the colorchecker thing yet, i better go do it right now, i have the charts already taken (thankfuly even for my old cams which i sold off since i still have quite a few raw pics to develop from them)
Here are what faithful and neutral looked like, with the custom profile third again for comparison:
Just a quick snapshot I took the other week (first tomatoes off our plants this year) but again, the custom profile has much more accurate and pleasing colour. No matter which of the included presets I chose, I would have had to start using the HSL controls to get good looking colour, and yet with the custom profile, I didn't have to change a thing.
Jul 20, 2009 at 02:41 PM
 is enough to get the look I want, rather than tweaking individual colours. (in that moth image, I haven't touched the colour controls at all)<br />
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I'm sure if you played about with the controls enough you could get the image to look similar, but you'd have to do it on a per-image basis and I felt it was taking up too much time. <br />
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Once I created the profiles, I was kicking myself for not buying the card and doing it sooner when I saw the results. (I wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not as I hadn't seen much discussion online)<br />
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One thing I will recommend though is to take the time to get your daylight shot as close to 6500K as you can (I had to wait a couple of days for the weather to be right for it) and to shoot the chart at all ISO settings on your camera. There weren't huge differences, but there <i>were</i> differences, and if you're going to the trouble of making the profiles you might as well get it right for each so that colour should look the same regardless of your ISO setting.<br />
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To do that, in Lightroom go to Preferences > Presets and check the “Make defaults specific to camera ISO setting” option. (and of course, remember to create a new set of defaults for each ISO with the correct profile selected in the develop module)<br />
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Here's another set of images for comparison:<br />
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