Matching Colors between Camera and MacBook Monitor

[kafinnoeman]

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Hi all,

 

In the past five days I’ve been busy trying to match the color of the photos on camera preview display and its straight from camera jpeg on my MacBook Pro Retina Display.

 

The reason why I’am doing this is because sometimes I want a picture that looks exactly the same as it seen on the camera preview.

 

So far, I can’t get the right setting to get the expected result. The color is always slightly different, you can tell the difference when you zoom it. Things I’ve done:

1. Adjusting the camera display setting to match the colors seen on the MacBook

2. Adjusting MacBook display profile to match the colors on the camera.

3. Adjusting the Camera Calibration sliders in Lightroom to be saved as preset when editing jpeg.

 

So, is it possible to do this? Or there will always be a slight difference between what you see on camera’s monitor and MacBook?

 

I’m using Leica D-Lux 109, color space sRGB.

[jaapv]

Why should you want to do that? The camera display is a rather primitive rendering anyway.

 

If you want to get your colours matched more or less, you should first perform a proper calibration of the computer screen with a Colorspyder or X-Rite device, 

Then you should realize that a Retina screen has a wide P3 colourspace which is different from your barely-sRGB camera LCD.

Thirdly, to do proper colour corrections, you should work in 16-bits Adobe RGB files from DNG.

 

You will never get a perfect match, however.

[kafinnoeman]

Why should you want to do that? The camera display is a rather primitive rendering anyway.

 

If you want to get your colours matched more or less, you should first perform a proper calibration of the computer screen with a Colorspyder or X-Rite device, 

Then you should realize that a Retina screen has a wide P3 colourspace which is different from your barely-sRGB camera LCD.

Thirdly, to do proper colour corrections, you should work in 16-bits Adobe RGB files from DNG.

 

You will never get a perfect match, however.

 

Thank you for your response! I really appreciate it.