Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/21

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Subject: now: M8 Profiles and Calibration (was Re: [Leica] M8 goes to the hockey game)
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Sun Jan 21 04:49:20 2007

> So if you open a DNG file in Capture One do you then save it as TIFF
> or something to move it to another software suite??
>
> Thanks for the update!
>
> Adam

Yes - except but the TIFF files are quite large.
I think 16 bit full res will set you back around 50-55 Mb per image.

Other thing I want to try, but haven't yet:

1) Resave the DNGs via ACR to 'fix' the profile.
2) Then use the ACR calibration script from
http://fors.net/chromoholics/download/
3) Using that script on a image of a Macbeth color chart to get
calibration numbers to put in the calibration tab of ACR or Lightroom.

I tried the above without step 1 and the results were bad.
I think Leica's native profile is so far off in Lightroom that that
calibrations script couldn't compensate enough.

It can work - I used it with my DMR DNGs and really saw an improvement.

Of course all this profiling is somewhat onanistic.
I work mostly in Black and White !

Eric