I do think Canon does a great job with color. I’ve shot a Nikon for many years and am generally happy with the brand. But when I bought the G1X III a few years ago, I was pleasantly impressed with the color straight out of the camera. I’d love to reproduce it in PP with my Z7.
have you try to modify the Auto White Balance, the colour Balance away from the Green toward the B & M?
I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Starfly,
You make a fair point, but my issue with switching to C1 now is that I expect to purchase a couple more lenses when they come out, specifically the 24-105 f4 and 70-200 f4. C1 doesn't release lens profiles for older versions of their software. So I can purchase C1 v20 today, but those lenses won't come out until at least next year, requiring me to purchase C1 again. And their subscription model is really overpriced at double the cost of LR, I'd prefer to just get the perpetual license and use it for a few years.
Hi again. I realize you aren't likely to take my advice (which, of course, is perfectly fine). But I'll send you one more volley here:
someone correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that C1 (and ACR/LR) automatically make use of Nikon’s lens profile for Nikkor Z lenses.
I agree with you about the delta between the amortization of the perpetual license cost vs. the subscription cost.
Agreed.
Is C1 fixed the issue? I am using C1 for a month. And decided to move back to Lightroom. The reason is the Purple/Green Fringing. It won’t fix the purple/green fringing issue on the photos. But Lightroom did very effective to eliminate the purple, may 60% of the time for Green. I have few AF-D lens. C1 is too bad in this.
Although it goes against orthodox thinking, for general photography I think of camera profiles as being a starting palette for a photo so I start by trying different ones as a basis for further processing steps.
There is no one way that LR 'reads' NEF files. It "reads" NEF files according to the camera profile applied. What camera profile are you applying in LR?
I've tried several, such as Adobe Color, Adobe Standard, Camera Standard, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait. With the as shot white balance, they all have a greenish cast on the skin.
Fair enough. It sounds like you have already taken some measures to correct what you are perceiving. Without a sample image, it is difficult to comment further. Other than to recommend some relevant reading authored by one of our valued mentors and teachers on this and other fora:I've tried several, such as Adobe Color, Adobe Standard, Camera Standard, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait. With the as shot white balance, they all have a greenish cast on the skin.
I just downloaded the Capture One 20 trial and that also gives me a greenish cast on the same pictures.
Nikon's software as well. It's really something that's in the Raw data.
Yeah, I can with some processing get rid of that greenish cast by tweaking the white balance and tint sliders, but this is the first camera I've owned where I've had to do that.
I'd post a picture as an example, but it's of my daughter and I don't want her photos all over the internet
So today I took my daughter out to a nearby park, with lots of green grass. It was 8am morning light and I used Natural Light Auto. Also using the C1 Pro trial, and the results are quite pleasing so far.
Yes, I should add that I tweaked my in camera white balance settings to +1 Magenta for AWB, but hadn't done it yet for Natural Light Auto. Most of these shots were Natural Light Auto and did give me an overal better color balance (to taste of course) than AWB did before I made the +1 Magenta adjustment
I hadn't processed it yet in Lightroom, but just opened it up there and Lightroom at 'As Shot' white balance and tint renders it slightly more green using the Camera Neutral V2 profile (I also used Camera Neutral in C1, and it's the profile I use in camera).
