Can you make my M240 file match my M9 file?

[John Ricard]

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I'm pleased with the color output of my M9 when I use it in the studio. Usually setting a manual WB of 5600 produces an output that is pleasing to my eye.

 

I'm having trouble making my M240 produce colors that are close to my M9. I understand we are talking about 2 different cameras and I know the sensors are very different. Still, I'd like to get the M240 as close as possible to my M9 in terms of the way the image looks.

 

I've uploaded a jpeg shot in the studio from the M9 that has the colors I like. I've also uploaded an M240 DNG and JPEG shot a few seconds after the M9 shot. The M240 shot includes a grey card, which in theory, should help with adjusting the colors. Is someone out there willing to see if you can get my M240 file to look like my M9 file?

 

I'm especially curious what settings would work for this in LR. Thanks in advance.

 

Images are in this Dropbox folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iyqb7iofke2wlxx/AAC6Sx1sL9-yOxFHVTm68GwJa?dl=0

[jaapv]

If you want to match two different cameras for colour you must shoot a colour profile on both with identical light.

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[fotomas]

Don't know if this is close enough for your needs? Maybe I push the contrast a bit to much.

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Here are my settings in CameraRAW:

I never use LR. Prefer C1 instead.

But I hope CameraRAW is close enough to LR to adapt.

Guess you don't use Flash. The skintones in the JEPGs of my M also looks ugly if I use not sunlight, studio-flash or tungsten.

 

Regards

 

Frank

[John Ricard]

Guess you don't use Flash...

 

I'm absolutely using flash in this shot. It's a Profoto beauty dish in front of the subject and 2 Profoto umbrellas placed on the sides of the subject. Using these lights and modifiers, I'm usually happy with 5600 on my M9. Using my M240 I can't ever seem to find a Kelvin number that I am pleased with. And even when I shoot a grey card, I'm not really happy with the resulting color in the studio on the M240.

 

I really appreciate your taking the time to process the image for me. The result looks great in your post. I'm going to try those settings this morning. Thank you.

[fotomas]

I'm absolutely using flash in this shot. It's a Profoto beauty dish in front of the subject and 2 Profoto umbrellas placed on the sides of the subject. Using these lights and modifiers, I'm usually happy with 5600 on my M9. Using my M240 I can't ever seem to find a Kelvin number that I am pleased with.

Sorry that I guess this wrong. But with flash I never had such great deviation in skin tone here. So I assume you might have used some fluorescent light there. With my M the JPEG isn't so far away from the DNG with flash. But I don't have a M9 to compare.

Here some tests I've done with flash (Elinchrom).

In my example the upper row is DNG and JPEG shot together with a individual WB, set on the second field from the grayscale.

Below is an JPEG with WB setting Daylight what meant 5000° kelvin. All without postprocessing. The DNG left below is processed with my mostly used settings in C1.

 

The flash has 4700° kelvin according our color-meter. A similar value I used for processing.

Edited December 27, 2014 by fotomas