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ChrisMak wrote:
I bought the (Capture One) base profile set for both my cameras: Sony A7RII and Nikon D500. A few questions:
-Capture One uses single illuminant .icc profiles and you include two daylight profiles (apart from the "repro"): standard daylight and neutral daylight. As I understand the "neutral daylight" profile gives you the true to life colors, but you feel that a correction is needed, and so you make the "standard daylight" profile. How is this correction established and what is it that you feel needs to be corrected? Is it simply to make the images look more pleasing, or is there a more fundamental need for a color correction?
-Also: at what white balance range would you say that the single illuminant daylight profiles are truly accurate in CO1? Is that range narrow and do incorrect individual colors occur outside that narrow range, or does a color cast occur?
-I first bought the Nikon D500 profile, and noticed one peculiarity: pure yellow seems to be very strong", meaning that a pure yellow color tends to have a high saturation level and also high illumination intensity. This leads to colors around the yellow range, going into orange, not being faithfull or correct, but suffering from a shift towards yellow. I tested this on multiple yellow object in outside light, and also orange objects. It also leads to green colors looking slighly yellowish: e.g. grass in the sun having a too high level of yellow saturation.
I thought at first that the D500 profile could be slightly off, but after I got the Sony A7RII profile, I noticed the same, so my compliments for your profiles being very consistent. Is this emphasis on yellow illumination and saturation in pure yellow or adjacent colors part of a look that you strive for?
That was my critique on the profiles, but let me say that they are a must for Capture One users. To begin with, all Capture One profiles suffer from a default contrast level being far too high and blocking up the blacks and pushing the whites. You can use the "linear" base profile and tweak the contrast sure, but a realistic base profile has always been missing.
Moreover, Capture One profiles are very inconsistent across different cameras and have strange ways in which they oversaturate. For example, Capture One seems to love the blue channel and pushes blue saturation in skies in a way that is hard to correct and very far off a realistic baseline. The new ProStandard profiles push the blue channel saturation in ways that have you constantly battle clipping and skies consistently have a strange blueish cast.
There is a lot more to say about how Capture One makes your eyes get used to wrong color and contrast habits, but that would lead to far.
The Cobalt profiles help a lot to get closer to better habits regarding color and contrast. I use a calibrated Eizo CS2740 display b.t.w. just to make clear I that I what I am seeing is how it is meant to be.
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When you see different color "feelings" like the yellow or the green , compared o the Generic by C1 remember two things:
1- the habit of our eyes, for someone working 10 ours (at least) at day since 2010 in front on a calibrated monitor is normal but sometimes need to be recalled. Your eyes are addicted to color reproduction and if you put on the same image the HUE at -10 and you work for one hour on that, finally you'd swear when that is the correct one comparing it to the same with correct Hue on 0. The same happens on color signature on C1.. not constant and perhaps reddish-orange.
2- Our profiles are calibrated and you can see on our website (and on this topic as well) many comparison, data and details about how superior (for accuracy) are compared to the Adobe std and C1 generic and PRO.
so, answering..
1-standard profile is built with a correction for skin tone, let's say for more pleasing skin tones
neutral is more accurate for landscapes, Macro, commercial...etc.
2-daylight is for ... day... flash.. outside light until the night... and night without any artificial light.
tungsten is made for any artificial light.(warm mainly)
3- I think I answered in my prologue 
Thank you for your honest review, and yes, even before our project I always complained about the capture one base profile... easy to understand why the level of NON-p1 profiles are so inconsistent... they started their interest in other customers (other than P1) in last two years and they assume you make your own profiles for pro works.
TIPS.
On c1 always LOWER structure and Clarity to -15 (both) and the sharpness almost at minimum, with low radious whit NR at maximum 10 .
After that, you can emphasize the area of interest with a mask and your favorite settings, by default they always put too much clarity and structure.and sometimes people confuse that with a better raw engine.
Again, thanks, we appreciated your feedback.
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