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Originally Posted by wolfie
On the Louth shot Saturation was not boosted in anyway, apart from using the Canon landscape profile within lightroom, which does boost the colours as against using such as the Camera Faithful profile.
I guess you are still a DDP user? if so you may not be conversant with Lightroom, although ACR in CS3 uses the same profiles.
The end result was as you surmised the result of the Spyder profile so was not output as sRGB, though to be quite honest there was very little to choose between the two.
Harry
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I think it was about this time last year that I posted a shot I was having trouble with in the Crit forum and was so impressed with what Nick (Greenbunion, where are you Nick??) was able to do with other software that I realised DPP was not the answer....and maybe neither was the 350D. Got a Nikon D80 and used Nikon Capture NX ever since.
Going off thread, but I realised that the CR2 conversion pane in DPP had a sort of slipperiness on colour that was unsatisfactory. Things like the 'landscape' or 'portrait' setting analog the auto settings on the camera and why both 'neutral' and 'faithful'? Defeats the object of shooting manual. It may not matter so much with 5D and 1D (and 40D, 50D) as I assume their sensors are order-of-magnitude better.
When I return to 350D shots I never managed but didn't want to bin, I convert to .tif using PSE4 with absolutely no 'auto' settings, then take up again in NX2, and I think with far better results
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...929&ppuser=780
I have never tried Lightroom, I imagine similar to (free) Nikon View NX. But from conversations with Duncan, if using anything other than Nikon, I would be looking at Capture 1 for RAW conversion.
Back to core of thread, I suppose I can see the differences as I do have a decent monitor (MacBook pro 15, built-in). As far as calibration is concerned, I am most impressed with the Spyder work done by my local Newent camera Club for digital projection. However that is in an otherwise dark room. On computer monitor, there is also highly variable ambient light and I toggle between internal calibrations for 'normal' in my studio/pigsty, ditto but at night and northlight, getting the grey greyest. Doesn't actually seem to make much difference to prints which used for editing, printer does what it likes
As far as all the technical aspects of the web, I can't see much trouble in using FF3 with colour management, nor with having one's editing programmes all at Adobe RGB...compared to trying to take decent pics in the first place.