Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>>I would really love to hear feedback on this as I don't really use the passport as I just can't set it up for every time the light changes.  I am advanced amateur daddy shooter.  Most of the time lighting is poor and changing.  When I shoot in a studio, a grey card shoot at the start is easy.

Exactly; the idea of building a camera calibration or profile for each and every situation, including Laredo at night in bars, etc, just is not a viable workflow. Our idea is that a quick shot of the Cube is quite a lot easier, and the camera target doesn't need to be carried around, only shot in relatively controlled conditions, in a careful manner. The gray card face of the Checkr is great for studio work as well.

>>I am concerned with deviation of my actual camera, and that's where I really would love a calibration/profile that is lighting independent and will color correct my camera to what it should be shooting regardless of the lighting and image being shot. For example, if it tends to shoot the red channel higher or something along those lines.  I know it does to some degree, but I just can't make DNG profiles 1-15 times I shoot.

Right, that's the idea we are pursuing: camera specific corrections to color that are as global as possible, if you want additional scene specific data, that would be the Cube... 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging and Home Theater
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:19 AM, Vampire D <vampired@...> wrote:

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> I would really love to hear feedback on this as I don't really use the passport as I just can't set it up for every time the light changes.  I am advanced amateur daddy shooter.  Most of the time lighting is poor and changing.  When I shoot in a studio, a grey card shoot at the start is easy.
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> I am concerned with deviation of my actual camera, and that's where I really would love a calibration/profile that is lighting independent and will color correct my camera to what it should be shooting regardless of the lighting and image being shot. For example, if it tends to shoot the red channel higher or something along those lines.  I know it does to some degree, but I just can't make DNG profiles 1-15 times I shoot.