What makes the spectre profiles attractive, is that they work with adobe raw and with capture one.
I use capture one and the A1 profiles are awful i.m.o. The capture one "prostandard" profiles blow the blue channel horribly on the A1, the A7RIII and the A7RIV. On the other hand, they do not on the A7RV. But in all cases the colors are unnaturally strong, especially the blue colors. The older "generic" profiles like that from the A7RII were much better behaved, but would have deviations (color casts) that undermine color consistency.
If the spectre profiles solve all these issues that capture one profiles have, then that would be great, but they are just a bit too expensive to try them out.. There is no try-out option, so I have not bought them for the A1 and A7RIII
ChrisMak wrote:
I use capture one and the A1 profiles are awful i.m.o. The capture one "prostandard" profiles blow the blue channel horribly on the A1, the A7RIII and the A7RIV. On the other hand, they do not on the A7RV. But in all cases the colors are unnaturally strong, especially the blue colors.
I shoot mostly daytime and have almost exactly zero issues with C1 simply using the default profile. Usually this is the one specific to my 600f4. Are you shooting Sony glass, and if so which? Or is your issue maybe WB related?
Daran wrote: ChrisMak wroteI use capture one and the A1 profiles are awful i.m.o. The capture one "prostandard" profiles blow the blue channel horribly on the A1, the A7RIII and the A7RIV. On the other hand, they do not on the A7RV. But in all cases the colors are unnaturally strong, especially the blue colors.I shoot mostly daytime and have almost exactly zero issues with C1 simply using the default profile. Usually this is the one specific to my 600f4. Are you shooting Sony glass, and if so which? Or is your issue maybe WB related?
I use the 600GM and it is ok but for general shooting I use the Zeiss loxia lenses, and I guess it is the combination of the high contrast lenses with the CO1 prostandard profiles that just does not work.
ChrisMak wrote: Daran wroteChrisMak wroteI use capture one and the A1 profiles are awful i.m.o. The capture one "prostandard" profiles blow the blue channel horribly on the A1, the A7RIII and the A7RIV. On the other hand, they do not on the A7RV. But in all cases the colors are unnaturally strong, especially the blue colors.I shoot mostly daytime and have almost exactly zero issues with C1 simply using the default profile. Usually this is the one specific to my 600f4. Are you shooting Sony glass, and if so which? Or is your issue maybe WB related?I use the 600GM and it is ok but for general shooting I use the Zeiss loxia lenses, and I guess it is the combination of the high contrast lenses with the CO1 prostandard profiles that just does not work.
Have you tried the provided profiles for Zeiss Loxia? I have no idea what a "prostandard" profile is, but if, as you say it "just does not work" for you, I'd reconsider using it...
I have them for the A1 II and A7R6. They are quite useful, but I have a lot of other profiles and use all of them, depending on the nature of the image and the look I am going for.
A lot depends on the type of image (portrait, architecture, landscapes, high contrast, low contrast, etc). There some images where the Cobalt profiles are great and some images where they are not so great, IMHO.
Overall, I think they are definitely worth buying.
InFocus2014 wrote:
I have them for the A1 II and A7R6. They are quite useful, but I have a lot of other profiles and use all of them, depending on the nature of the image and the look I am going for.
A lot depends on the type of image (portrait, architecture, landscapes, high contrast, low contrast, etc). There some images where the Cobalt profiles are great and some images where they are not so great, IMHO.
Overall, I think they are definitely worth buying.
Isn't the entire point of the Spectre profiles in particular that they should be THE baseline for ALL of your images? I'm not talking about Cobalt emulations.
RoamingScott wrote: InFocus2014 wroteI have them for the A1 II and A7R6. They are quite useful, but I have a lot of other profiles and use all of them, depending on the nature of the image and the look I am going for.
A lot depends on the type of image (portrait, architecture, landscapes, high contrast, low contrast, etc). There some images where the Cobalt profiles are great and some images where they are not so great, IMHO.
Overall, I think they are definitely worth buying.Isn't the entire point of the Spectre profiles in particular that they should be THE baseline for ALL of your images? I'm not talking about Cobalt emulations.
I'm no expert on this, but when I installed the Cobalt Spectre files they showed-up as five selectable Profiles, so I am just using them like any other profile. What am I missing?