Camera calibration.

rjbell · 29 Jan 2013

When opening a raw image in ACR am i getting nikon colour profile or adobe? If it is nikon colours, are there camera specific profiles you can download to correct the colours. Finally, can you download other camera colour profiles so you can get the look of other brand cameras?

PJ S · 29 Jan 2013

Nikon don't have a profile - in fact no camera does, they all adhere to providing the option of outputting as sRGB or Adobe(1998) RGB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm
http://www.color.org/info_profiles2.xalter#digitalphotography
http://www.petapixel.com/2009/09/17/why-you-should-probably-use-srgb/

So that renders your comparative brands question null and void.
If you're printing (magazine or "canvas"), then you'd option the Adobe profile, but for web usage, sRGB is going to give the most homogenous look across everyone's generic ICC profile monitor(s).

rjbell · 29 Jan 2013

srgb and adobe rgb refer to the colour gamut, colours available doesn't it? They can still render a colour different but still in the gamut. A canon images looks different that a nikon one too me.

hyeongsoong · 29 Jan 2013

You are getting the adobe colour instead of the nikon colour profile. For light room 4 you can download different camera profile presets.

neil_g · 29 Jan 2013

rjbell said:
When opening a raw image in ACR am i getting nikon colour profile or adobe? If it is nikon colours, are there camera specific profiles you can download to correct the colours. Finally, can you download other camera colour profiles so you can get the look of other brand cameras?

Normally you'll be setting the colour profile in the camera menus to srgb or adobe rgb. So it'll be whatever you've set it to.

Incidentally canon images looking different to Nikon images could be a whole host of things and not colour profiles.

Bristolian · 29 Jan 2013

rjbell said:
When opening a raw image in ACR am i getting nikon colour profile or adobe? If it is nikon colours, are there camera specific profiles you can download to correct the colours. Finally, can you download other camera colour profiles so you can get the look of other brand cameras?

Robert, by default ACR applies an Adobe interpretation of what Nikon intended. You can change this in camera calibration in ACR. There are additional profiles that you can download from the Nikon web site too.

Hope that helps

Pookeyhead · 30 Jan 2013

If you are shooting RAW it's irrelevant, as no colour profiles are embedded into a RAW file until you export them from your RAW software.

Just select sRGB if you don't have a well managed colour work flow, or Adobe RGB if you know what you are doing.

tdodd · 30 Jan 2013

For Canon there are several camera profiles (otherwise known as picture styles) supplied with Lightroom. Others can be downloaded and added or you can even create your own. I imagine there are similar options for Nikon.

Here are the supplied options for Canon....

boyfalldown · 30 Jan 2013

Pookeyhead said:
If you are shooting RAW it's irrelevant, as no colour profiles are embedded into a RAW file until you export them from your RAW software.

Just select sRGB if you don't have a well managed colour work flow, or Adobe RGB if you know what you are doing.

mmmmm.........or select sRGB if you don't have a specific reason to use aRGB, nothing to do with knowing what you're doing or not.

neil_g · 30 Jan 2013

boyfalldown said:
mmmmm.........or select sRGB if you don't have a specific reason to use aRGB, nothing to do with knowing what you're doing or not.

Pookeyhead · 30 Jan 2013

boyfalldown said:
mmmmm.........or select sRGB if you don't have a specific reason to use aRGB, nothing to do with knowing what you're doing or not.

I disagree. If you're putting images on the web, and you don't understand the differences between colourspaces, then you also won;t understand that non colour managed browsers and image viewers will render your images desaturated.

I know many people who wouldn't understand that.

The only difference is that you're recommending sRGB because you think there's no need for anything else... I am because unless you know what you're doing with wider a gamut work flow it can cause you problems.

(shrug).