Kirby Krieger wrote:
I agree (after all, that is what profiles are for), but ... I spent a couple of days creating a profile for my Sony a850 using X-Rite's Passport. The best I did was inferior to the one built into Aperture. I learned that:
- the supplied profiles are (or can be) good
- it is time-consuming to make a profile
- it requires very good equipment and some expertise to make an excellent profile.
YMMV.
I think I may have spent no more than hour on a single camera profile ... all I used was the Color Checker chart I already owned and the free Adobe DNG Profile Editor app (which is misleading because the profiles work with the native RAW files, you only need to use a DNG file to create the profile) ... nothing too time consuming or expensive about that ...
While I am not too disappointed with the canned profiles that Aperture uses, though what the effort of creating custom profiles for ACR/Lightroom afforded me was the color rendition I prefer, not the rendition that a software developer created for everyone ... Each camera has it's own traits, each photographer has their own expectations ... it's not always about 100% color accuracy, rather it is mostly about pleasing color that reflects your personal taste and expectations vs. one-size-fits-all ...