Three or four weeks ago I received a Metabones 1.26x expander for Nikon F-mount lenses on Fujifilm G-mount cameras. This is an adapter with glass — and quite a bit of glass, at that — inside. It increases the focal length of any lens attached to it by a factor of 1.26, and expands the… [Read More]
Camera differences in Adobe Color Profile
In the last post, I showed that, at least in the default general-purpose settings, Lumiriver Profile Designer did not do a particularly good job of producing the same color from raw files from three different cameras, even though with the reproduction defaults (except for 2.5 dimension LUTs) it did pretty well with at least one… [Read More]
Calibrating out the camera when making color profiles
In this test and this one, I showed that you could get the colors of developed files from the Sony a7RIV, the Nikon Z7, and the Fujifilm GFX 100 reasonably close if you used Lumariver Profile Designer, and the reproduction style. The a7RIV and the Z7 were remarkably statistically accurate and even closer to each… [Read More]
Chromaticity shifts with the a7RIV, Z7, and GFX 100
Yesterday, I reported on test shots of both the Macbeth Colorchecker 24-patch target (the CC24), and the Colorchecker SG 140-patch target (CCSG), made with the following setup: Sony a7RIV, Nikon Z7, Fujifilm GFX 100 Zony 55, Nikon 24-70/2.8 Z-mount lens, Fuji 120 mm f/4 macro Godox/Flashpoint AD600 Pro strobes, set to 1/64 power. 12-inch reflectors… [Read More]
Camera differences in color profile making
I made test shots of both the Macbeth Colorchecker 24-patch target (the CC24), and the Colorchecker SG 140-patch target (CCSG). I used the following setup: Sony a7RIV, Nikon Z7, Fujifilm GFX 100 Zony 55, Nikon 24-70/2.8 Z-mount lens, Fuji 120 mm f/4 macro Godox/Flashpoint AD600 Pro strobes, set to 1/64 power. 12-inch reflectors 45-degree strobe… [Read More]