M8, UV/IR filter, brownish, dull greens

[jaapv]

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I happened to take a yellow/green shot yesterday, and got very close to the original colors. I used Jamie Roberts' "M8 chrome" profile in C1 and desaturated 20%.

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[ptarmigan]

I have an M8 (upgraded to 8.2) using a Leica UV/IR filter on a Elmarit 35mm lens. Compared to my D Lux 4, and a friends Canon S90, the greens (grass, leaves, etc) are rather dull and a muddy brownish color. I can almost, but not quite, correct for this by shifting the temperature about 100 degrees toward blue in post processing. Anyone else with this problem? Any suggestion?

 

I just opened an M8 RAW file in iPhoto. Can't understand how you can do much with the raw file and the colours weren't a patch on C1, ACR or LR3 straight out of the box. I'd suggest you stick with one of the typically used editors/raw convertors mentioned above. You can download eval versions of most if not all of them.

[billmary]

I found the "KammaGamma" site to be fascinating. I think I understand most (some) of it, particularly the part about color being "tough".

Four comments:

1. I have been experimenting with Jpeg, which seems to look closer to the actual scene colors. (But I would rather use DNG, mainly because I can go back and edit it ad infinitum without degradation, and I think I can get sharper end results.)

2. By moving the temperature about 300 degrees (more or less, it seems to vary with different scenes) toward the blue end of the spectrum the colors seem to match the scene better, so this is what I'm doing now, as well as planning to get a hood.

3. Using my 24mm Elmarit 2.8, which has a hood, the colors seem to match the scene better than the 35mm Summarit without a hood. (Both without manipulating the color temperature.)

4. I'd better get a better converter/editor.

Thank you all,

Bill

[ho_co]

Bill, if you understood most of the KammaGamma link, you did better than I.

 

Remember, a lot of 'color satisfaction' has to do with one's viewing. If your final output is to be a print, you may prefer a different color balance than if you're viewing mostly on a monitor.

 

Not to open a can of worms, but if you're displaying mainly on the Web, remember that different browsers react differently to embedded color spaces, so what looks good on your Mac may not turn out too well on another computer.

 

And you're definitely right that the Japanese designers tend to design for generally quite saturated colors. (Adobe's approach to color at one time tended to make the M8's reds quite garish IMHO, but in their current products they allow the user to choose a preset that's comfortable for him.)