Jamie Roberts Posted June 9, 2009 Share #21 Posted June 9, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm getting an Epson 3800, then we'll see... Of course, YMMV You'd be better off getting the profile from someone who has a good Lambda printer and checking it against that. Then if the Epson gave you weird results you'd know, at least, it was your fault Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ammitsboel Posted June 9, 2009 Share #22 Posted June 9, 2009 Of course, YMMV You'd be better off getting the profile from someone who has a good Lambda printer and checking it against that. Then if the Epson gave you weird results you'd know, at least, it was your fault You have a lambda? :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Roberts Posted June 9, 2009 Share #23 Posted June 9, 2009 You have a lambda? :-) No, but my lab(s) have several Sorry I can't recommend someone close to you, but if you're feeling adventurous in terms of shipping, there's always "The Edge" in Australia (who do fabulous work): http://www.theedgephoto.com.au/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 9, 2009 Share #24 Posted June 9, 2009 I never trust a distant software engineer to do something I can do for myself. I created my own ACR profile for the M8, shooting a ColorChecker and then adjusting the saturation/hue for R,G,B in ACR's calibrate page until the values of the RGB color patches matched the published values for those patches. The values depend on the color space you use (Adobe 1998 for me), so make sure you use thr right ones. For Adobe 1998, the ColorChecker patches should come out Red - 154R, 51G, 60B Green - 100R, 149G, 78B Blue - 55R, 62G, 147B I go back and redo this about every 4 months just in case there is any drift in the sensor. It should be noted, however, that a profile will, at best, make sure that the color relationships are numerically accurate. That has nothing to do with perception. What's right and what "looks right" are two different things. Nor does it cover that fact that the profiling/calibration controls also affect the complementary primaries (C, M, Y). E.G. my profile that accurately reproduces blue hues tends to produce greenish yellows, and correcting the yellows tends to produce cyanish blues, so I profile for the blues and tweak yellows in PS via "Selective Color" or "Hue/Saturation" to twist them a bit towards orange/red. Yellows are a significant part of skin tones, so that tends to improve those, as well. In the original shots of this thread, on MY monitor, the reds are slightly too hot in the first shot and quite a bit too dull and brown/purple in the second. Some may find the second preferable - but that doesn't mean it is correct. On monitor profiling - again, unless one can take one's monitor in to the Bureau of Standards and compare it side-by-side with their "officially" calibrated monitor visually, one really doesn't know how well a calibration device has done its job. It may be warmer or cooler, or have a higher or lower contrast/gamma, than it did before, and it may match prints more predictably, which is good. But it doesn't necessarily mean it meets a universal standard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammitsboel Posted June 9, 2009 Share #25 Posted June 9, 2009 No, but my lab(s) have several Sorry I can't recommend someone close to you, but if you're feeling adventurous in terms of shipping, there's always "The Edge" in Australia (who do fabulous work): The Edge Photo Imaging Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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