... what you prefer: I prefer a beautiful photo to an accurate anytime. Photos aren't an accurate rendition of reality anyway. And the pics you show may well take some emotion.
It was an idle wish
Not trying to be confrontational here...
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No not quite. LR uses medium contrast as default and so does C1. It's called Film Standard. Linear response has much less contrast. But you are absolutely right that LR's medium contrast setting has much heavier contrast than the C1 equivalent Film Standard.
That may well be the way to go. I'll give it a try. But I guess it's very difficult and complex and would take months of experimenting... it's a pain.2. Color... the old debate resurfaces
His RSP profiles also were top notch. ACR (and Lightroom) don't
accept profiles in the conventional sense. Its a different approach
that Thomas Knoll and others have explained here many times... BUT
you can calibrate your own camera body yourself, apply the tweaks
to the calibrate tab and use that as your new color "default."
Of course you are right. But the better starting point the quicker and easier to get it right.
I absolutely agree. I guess what I was hoping for was a preset suggestion by someone who has done a lot of homework with 5D and LR and come up with some very accurate color tweaking and made them into presets.99% of the time, when I see raw-converter comparisons here and
elsewhere that lean heavily in one direction, all I really get out
of it is that the reviewer is really comfortable with and knows how
to get the best out of one and not the other
That was my starting point as wall. But then I simply couldn't make LR produce the correct kind of red (eg the shirt) that C1 produced pr default.
When I open a rawfile in LR and export the picture as tiff to PS CS2 and compare the Raw in LR with the Tiff in PS I don't see any difference.
This only happens if you are and Windows XP and 2000 (don't know about Vista), Macs reportedly are not affected. Even on Windows XP it may be difficult to spot it at first. Depending on the nature of monitor ICC, the differences may be either very obvious (color cast/ different overall contrast) or rather subtle (splotchiness, lack of gradation in deep shadows - like in my case).
This is very very good. I wish you hadn't corrected white balance as I wanted to see if it was possible to approach the red colored shirt that came out as default in C1 without correcting the whitebalance because the WB wasn't corrected in C1 either.
and white balance adjustment. Camera calibration controls are all
zeroed.
Francis
I prefer to have accuracy as a starting point for tweaking. Not colors that are off pr. default.
sRGB
No, I get to choose the output colorspace (I can choose between ProPhoto, Adobe 1998 and sRGB). I chose the latter.
Thank you, Sir!
So far it seems to be a terrific starting point. I'll experiment a bit with it. Only thing is I wouldn't decrease exposure but brightness.
