Digital BW, The Print

While I still like and use my D700's the difference in image quality, color fidelity and noise at higher iso's is profound between the 700 & 800 in my opinion.. I was greatly suprised at the reduction in noise.. I have three profiles I'm using in the studio, depending on how I light, The fidelity & colors are just stunning.. I quite pleased with it.. 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Kirwan 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:44 AM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: [EpsonWideFormat] Article on Canon 5D Mark lll and Nikon D800 color


    
  I have been using a D800 now for around 4 months and have to say there is a great improvement in color fidelity and dynamic range compare to my D700 and D3 and is now my workhorse for product work. The most striking thing for me when creating a camera profile for the D800 is the appearance when applied is subtle compared to the change when applying a custom profiles to files from the D3 and D700. 

  Wonder what improvements the next generation of Canon’s and Nikon’s will bring?

  Mike

  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of CDTobie
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:30 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: [EpsonWideFormat] Article on Canon 5D Mark lll and Nikon D800 color

  Camera color capabilities are a slippery area; capture devices don't have a gamut, per se, only a response range. So my goal here is not to map the gamut of these devices (a non-sensical task), but rather to show their response on practical colors. Both the red shirt and the cyan sky are within sRGB. If the classic "flavors" of Canon and Nikon cameras can be shown with these "web friendly" colors, then chasing fluorescent greens isn't really needed to make my case. 

  AdobeRGB does nothing to change this, as it shares both the red and the blue primaries of sRGB; and ProPhoto is not going to fly with eight-bit-per-channel samples, as it is so big posterization occurs. So the solution I chose was in-gamut color samples that retained the same visible effect in sRGB that they showed in Lightroom's linear ProPhoto space with both a wide gamut display, and a standard gamut display. I can live with those examples. Clearly you are looking for something else, but my goals of comparison and correction are met nicely by the examples in the article. 

  When all is said and done, the points I hope people will remember is that Canon and Nikon color aren't really from different planets, and that a bit of capture calibration can match them nicely.

  C. David Tobie
  Global Product Technology Manager
  Imaging Color Solutions
  Datacolor inc. 
  cdtobie@... <mailto:cdtobie%40datacolor.com> 
  www.datacolor.com

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