Guy Mancuso wrote:
.... What i will do is shoot a color chart in daylight than white bal that than save that as the default . Than i could go in and actually profile my camera with the calibration sliders and go by the numeric numbers of the card and than i can save that as my final camera default. profiling on the cheap .
Send me the chart shot, I can do the calibration for you So, the CS3 has the same calibration setup as CS2 ?
Harvey, I think you'll find those are the same ones you built in CS2... On the presets, I don't think there are any "new" ones. At least on my PC, all that CS3 appears to have done is carry over the presets I made in CS2.
Cheers,
Edited by Jack Flesher on Dec 15, 2006 at 04:26 PM GMT
ClubShooter wrote:
Oh bummer. I was kinda hoping it would be same so I didn't have a great reason to buy a MacBook Pro!
Re speed, on my PC I ran a benchmark against CS2. This is a heavy set of actions designed for a fast machine with over 3G RAM that forces it to go to scratch. Anyway, my time dropped from 29 seconds to 24 seconds. About a 20% gain -- IMO that is a pretty significant performance increase
I think Robert posted the action and a test image somewhere if others want to try it.
We talk so much here about all the technical attributes of the M8 (Appropriately so by the way) but i thought I might take a moment to share an M8 image of my 5 month old "Golden Doodle Puppy", now at 45 pounds and climbing). I shot this image within seconds of my dog, "Ansel" discovering that the master's chair really belonged to him. Wonderful dog, wonderful moment and wonderful M8. Printed this at 22x30" and it is fabulous.
Pondria wrote:
So, are we concluding that CS3 doesn't come with preset calibrations for each camera ?
No... It clearly comes with built-in raw processing defaults for different cameras just like always, but camera model and optional settings are NOT specifically listed out in the preset dialog -- you still have to make those yourself.
It looks like you are right Jack, but it baffles me how acr4 found the files.
I searched the hard drives, and found them where I had stashed a calibration script in a download directory not related to Photoshop.
I did run the Thomas Fors script and manually entered the corrections in the cs2 acr version and named it by date for recall when needed, but I never named anything like the presets that showed up in acr4/cs3
The clothes are obvious. Should be black.
The bricks in the back are too pinkish.
The laptop on the table has too much red.
The leaves (hard to see) on the cover in the back are way bright pink.
The concrete ground and most other parts look fine. The soil in the back might be a tad green, but could be an effect of being adjacent to the pink bricks. (I.e. an illusion.)
Curiously, the eggplant color window frames look correct.
I converted this in the CS3 beta.
This was shot with the 28 Ultron. I think this camera is always going to need an IR cut filter on the lens, no matter what. In fact, it's pretty much unusable without it. So I need to decide whether to sell off all my non-Leica lenses and spend another $8000 or so on new lenses, and wait for who knows how many months for my IR filter order to show.
I think this is a lot worse than some people have made it out to be. The camera, IMO, is useless even outdoors without proper filtration.
Yeah, I ordered filters for all my lenses on Nov 12th. All I've received so far is a 37mm one to use with my Summitar with a 36-to-37 step up ring. (Which is also back ordered.) Fortunately a kind soul on this forum offered me their extra 49mm! So I have one for the cron 75, which is really important to me, and can adapt it for other lenses with 39/43/46-to-49 rings.
Mike,
Your lowly 5D images looks great; it must be the best 5D or the photographer and his process skill. I had to think its the later but the 5D is also a nice camera.
Mike,
Not too shabby considering the equipment limitations All this talk about which equipment is better reminds me of a round of golf I played a few years back. My friends and I were a three-some all playing with top notch gear, Ping, Mizuno, etc. and the starter asked if we'd mind having a single golfer round out our foursome. Poor guy didn't have two clubs in his bag that matched and most of them were rusty. I'm sure you can guess what happened... he beat the best of us by a country mile Just goes to show there's no substitute for talent and there aren't that many situations where it's the gear that's holding us back.
ClubShooter wrote:
I think this camera is always going to need an IR cut filter on the lens, no matter what. In fact, it's pretty much unusable without it. So I need to decide whether to sell off all my non-Leica lenses and spend another $8000 or so on new lenses, and wait for who knows how many months for my IR filter order to show.
I think this is a lot worse than some people have made it out to be. The camera, IMO, is useless even outdoors without proper filtration.
Maybe you can code your non-Leica lenses yourself. It also should only be important for lenses 35mm and wider.
With some internet search I was able to get some IR filters in stock for my most important lenses to start with. YOu might just need to spend some time in the internet. (maybe its too late allready).
For me the mor important question will be how good will they get the colors when using the filters in the new firmware
So, the CS3 has the same calibration setup as CS2 ?
Just goes to show there's no substitute for talent and there aren't that many situations where it's the gear that's holding us back.