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LEICA M Type240 Calibration Profile for Lightroom


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Here is a LEICA M PROFILE for Lightroom (I did this profile with profi ColorChecker Passport 1.02 from X-Rite).

 

LEICA M (Typ 240).dcp

 

On a Mac the file has to be copied to ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles. On a PC I don't know the location but this should be easy to find on internet.

 

In Lightroom, go to DEVELOP mode and to the bottom on the right side pane in "Camera Calibration". Here select the Profile "LEICA M (Type 240)".

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Does seem to change a lot, but not sure what to think of it. Would like some comments on how it was made and what it is supposed to do as well.

 

Here's a few samples I just did, based on unedited photos of course to see what it does to the raw image. The crop of the dancing girls is not white balanced, the two others was white balanced when shot.

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This thread confirms to me how wrong this approach of "true colours" is.

I am not interested in real or natural colors but in a color characteristic. Like in the good old days of film when each one had a certain look.

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Steve

 

Agree with the sentiment, not the approach.

 

I profile all my (serious) cameras with McBeth etc so that they have a baseline that matches each other. The profile has a part of "my" look, or my film if you like, backed in. I then apply my processing and printing techniques to produce my art. Without the baseline profiling I have a hard time matching the look from each camera to each other and to my own vision.

 

The prints hanging in my house are nearly all from different cameras, they look like my work, but no-one could tell me which camera took which shot. Especially if I didn't tell them the short list of bodies to begin with.

 

So no, I'm not interested in true colour, like you. I've never understood peoples discussions of how the files look SOOC. As everyone's look would be the same if we left it at that! But I am interested in a consistent baseline, from which I can deviate the same way each time.

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