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I just copied them so nothing has been moved. They don't show up when I go to the camera calibration module anyhow. I think maybe there is something wrong with my copy of LR. I will send Adobe a note.
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Originally posted by mikey2000 mikey2000 wrote:

I baked up two dual illuminant profiles (Daylight/Shade and Daylight/Tungsten). These seem to behave much better! I think I'm getting close to being happy now....

The profiles are here and here.

For general use, most light I find myself in would be caught between those two spreads. For special situations with difficult or unusual, I will still shoot a special one-off colour profile (if the situation warrants it!)


Thanks for your efforts with these. At this point I am not as satisfied with the Adobe Standard profile for the A99 as I was for the A900.

I tried your profiles but I feel there is too much red. A blue sky is slightly purple and green has an orange tint.

I am disappointed that DxO is taking so long to support the A99 as I prefer to use it as my Raw converter.

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Originally posted by dennismullen dennismullen wrote:


I am disappointed that DxO is taking so long to support the A99 as I prefer to use it as my Raw converter.


Support for the a99 is scheduled for 01/2013 according to the DxO website.

maybe the reason is that a99's are hard to get for testing purposes - i have not yet seen a full blown test of the a99 either. there are a lot of "hands down" tests and "previews" around on the www but they offer not much more information then the Sony press release....
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Dennis, thanks for the feedback.

Would you care to try this one here?

It's another dual illuminant profile created from the same set of natural light I tried yesterdat.. This time I used the Adobe DNG Profile Editor to create the .dcp file instead of the ColorChecker Passport utility. The shots were 6250K and 2850K which happens to be quite close to 6500K and 2850K, as recommended by the Adobe utility. Previously, I didn't upload a 'shade+tungsten' dual illuminant.

For reference, here is a dcp created from the exact same two files but created by the CCP util.

I think the Adobe version tames the reds a bit again and de-purples the sky a bit more and browns don't get that greenish tinge.

See what you think.... Am I getting closer? My feeling is this dcp made via the adobe utility is getting close. ;-)
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I'll tell you what... if you use certain lenses the LR profiles work well. I am getting some pretty impressive files from my A99 using the CZ 85/1.4
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Originally posted by N_Raged N_Raged wrote:

I was pleasantly surprised by these profiles as well. And they all work very nicely.

I find using just the standard profile works well for me.
I also created my own using the Pass Port and it turned my blue sky's a little purple.
And I also noticed when using a custom profile in LR 4.2 it changes the WB
I usually just leave my A99 on daylight WB, shoot the chart outdoors on a sunny day.
Strange how DNG profiles change the WB, maybe I am doing something wrong.
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