Pentax K-50 Lightroom profiles compared

sankos wrote:

Timbukto wrote:

Iliah Borg wrote:

How is your monitor profiled?

BTW, profiles made for one camera not necessarily suit another camera with a different lens. Camera sensors themselves are easily 6% different in response.

I don't bother buying any calibration kit, so all I do is get my iPad and Samsung S6/iPhone screen, and just get it close enough by eye.

So tweaking input camera colour profiles on an unprofiled monitor is like a Russian roulette with one chamber empty -- you might get lucky I'd stick to the defaults suggested by the profiling software (it relies on maths, rather than perception), or borrow a colorimeter from somebody if you don't want to spend money on that (but I think it's the same kind of investment as a new camera body or a lens).

Incidentally, you may want to check the profile that somebody prepared for RawTherapee -- it's a dcp made in Dcamprof but just copy it to the relevant folder and see if it improves things.

I'm not tweaking the heck out of these profiles...For Pentax I just took the IR shot, white balance match on the lightest grey, color match, and produce a profile (actually single illuminate seemed fine for even tungsten which I check with the carousel shot). So for Pentax I didn't touch a thing.

For Sony if I do the same process, the orange becomes pink. This is not due to slight variances in my monitor calibration...it is pink and it is pink on my iPad and pink on my Samsung S6. So I go to the Color Matrices tab (where it lets you do hue and saturation for primary colors), and I so a +10 shift to Red and the pink goes more to orange. On the Adobe standard the orange is not only orange but highly saturated orange to the point of looking poor for skin tones IMO (and not only my monitor but on my iPad and Samsung S6).

When I compare the A6300 vs A6000 ACR conversion on DPreview studio and look at the headshots, I can see that bronze/orange character with the Sony A6000 relative to A6300.

I know I do not have a perfectly calibrated monitor so I don't go crazy shifting colors on the color table all over, I just made a hue change on the color checked profile for Sony because for some reason the oranges become quite pink. I agree I'd rather not make any of these adjustments at all, which is why I am taking more of a liking to the Pentax which seems after color checking works better for all images.

Some recent shots...really impressed with my AF accuracy indoors in low light conditions -

I always shoot low ISO and pull in post later -

With plenty of mixed artificial lighting + pop up flash + my IR profile, it seems 'ok' to me. If anything better than what comes out on the LCD of the camera.

Red tint on the face is more from inebriation

Would have been nice if I didn't cut off the heels, but couldn't do much better with a 100mm prime, need the K-1 here.

D810 + 70-200 f2.8 VRII I believe since I know that is what everyone is staring at.

Pretty happy with results from a K-50, pop up flash, and just about the smallest but well built 100mm f2.8 macro lens in existence?