Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:

> But the goal of this excercise was to compare the camera color, which requires paring this back to just that, not any of the following steps.

I understand, but as much of a believer as I am in color managed workflows, I've never quite gotten the point of building camera-specific profiles, even when dealing with very specific scene illumination conditions for real=world subject matter (fine art repro is another matter).  If the camera profiling process still leaves you with global color temperature, lightness and contrast issues, and you may still want to perform selective hue and chroma adjustments, then I don' see any real image editing time savings when choosing a software "camera profiled" image over the manufacturer's "baseline" image calibration.  On the other hand, if a camera has a real deficiency in certain colors that are hard to manually correct, then some camera calibration software might be of help,  but I don't own any cameras that are so far out they need this kind of additional software intervention prior to beginning my "artistic" edits. They are all "close enough" as a starting point which was my point for your chosen image examples as well.  None was so superior at the beginning as to diminish one's time in subsequent image editing steps. David, maybe you can convince me otherwise in good time, but this exercise didn't do it ;-).

kind regards,
Mark