so everyone will find his starting point for his favored development method: who loves an early starting point in order to be able to use his own curve will love the Linear; who loves the minimum amount of time on Lightroom, will start from the STD and some further adjustments before the final export in jpeg.
Just imagine the above starting points, and the freedom to recover highlights, shadows and everything you always do on LR with our color signature for the specific film emulation.
That's just to give more optionss to our customers using our color emulations....Show more →
Thanks for listening to my feedback, that's really an improvement for your film packs.
jeffersoncasey wrote:
@Ulysseita@ - I've been following this thread with great interests. If I interpret how the profile calibration works, it means it'll extract the sensor raw data and convert them into a standard calibration.
In case of the M9 I find e.g. it often shift neutral grey colors (say a section in my bedroom that I know very well) with some cyan cast, even with Adobe standard, and my other much newer camera never or rarely do that. I was under impression that it was how the sensor rendered right from the get go so if the cast wasn't there in the raw data on modern cmos sensors, will it be even possible to recreate the color signature with the M9 DNG profile for other camera?
I also find the M9 to have a very unique tonal curve, while some limited dynamic range, I often need to pull down the highlight quite a bit to match the M9 highlight roll off. And that interesting deep inky blacks without being mushy. I'm supposed these are also bring emulated?
We talked so much about the emulations and color signatures for skin tones and portraiture in general, but not so much on landscapes...
Well.. below there are many samples of the same picture, captured using one hand on Ricoh Gr... during a flight with my drone on this super colorful sunrise.
Just a profile swap, no grain or noise added, standard curve.
We talked so much about the emulations and color signatures for skin tones and portraiture in general, but not so much on landscapes...
Well.. below there are many samples of the same picture, captured using one hand on Ricoh Gr... during a flight with my drone on this super colorful sunrise.
Just a profile swap, no grain or noise added, standard curve.
Ulysseita wrote:
captured using one hand on Ricoh Gr...
Just a profile swap, no grain or noise added, standard curve.
REPRO
On the Ricoh GR 3 - do you use the AE highlight-weighted metering setting?
Even setting the exposure compensation on +0.7 my images get real dark - and more so in the REPRO profile...
Am I too concerned with the camera histogram being slanted to the left (even at +0.7 exp comp), and should I just go ahead and slam that Lightroom exposure slider to the right in the GR III's REPRO profile?
I can't remember the metering, my camera was a GR, the one with 15mpx; never had problems of underexposure and always ready to work ( honestly I would say the perfect camera exist, his name is Ricoh GR.. )
markhout wrote:
On the Ricoh GR 3 - do you use the AE highlight-weighted metering setting?
Even setting the exposure compensation on +0.7 my images get real dark - and more so in the REPRO profile...
Am I too concerned with the camera histogram being slanted to the left (even at +0.7 exp comp), and should I just go ahead and slam that Lightroom exposure slider to the right in the GR III's REPRO profile?
I've just purchased the New Kodak film profiles and really appreciate that it comes in "Flat", "Standard" and "Linear" contrast curves! I hope this will be done for the other film profiles as well.
Here is a sequence showing Adobe Standard profile, Kodak Ektachrome (flat), Ekta 100 (flat) and Portra 400 (std):
Bought the basic pack for my A1, and did a few edits today. It was quite a revelation! I don't think I'll even bother trying Lightroom's built-in profiles in the future.
Some of the emulation profiles are also very tempting - I just need to decide which one to get.
Some of these have lovely results!
It is deflating though that photos simply taken with a $5000 camera and $2000 lens alone still isn't good enough. Kind of ridiculous how costly it all has become.
KarmaKramer wrote:
Some of these have lovely results!
It is deflating though that photos simply taken with a $5000 camera and $2000 lens alone still isn't good enough. Kind of ridiculous how costly it all has become.
We keep raising the standard of what good enough is. 10 years ago, images taken with the current gear was good enough...not so today.
Archive 2021 · Cobalt Profiles
As always an amazing effort there!
