Thursday, February 10, 2011

v3 Beta Camera Profiles Nikon D3 D700 D300

Adobe Engineer Eric Chan has released version 3 of his Beta camera profiles for selected Nikon bodies, download here.

These updated Camera v3 beta profiles for the Nikon D3, Nikon D300, and Nikon D700 are designed to reduce banding and highlight color artifacts. They also address the "too bright" tone curve issues with the previous "v2" version of the D3 and D700 profiles.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When using these v3 beta profiles, if you wish to match the default tonality of Nikon's Picture Controls (e.g., match View NX / Capture NX), you must set the Exposure slider in Camera Raw / Lightroom to -0.5.

Of course, feel free to adjust Exposure to make your image brighter or darker as you like. But in terms of matching Nikon's default tonality, you must set the Exposure slider to -0.5, or the default will be too bright.

For workflow convenience, you can use presets in Camera Raw / Lightroom to take care of both (e.g., simultaneously set the profile to "Camera Standard" and set Exposure to -0.5).
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11 comments:

  1. DavidFebruary 15, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    Thanks a lot for these invariant profiles. You just made my workflow in lightroom so much easier.

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  2. matt shumateApril 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM

    So, so good. Thank you.

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  3. Jake RussellApril 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM

    Thanks for posting. What do Invariant and Untwisted versions do differently than the original?

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  4. NikApril 22, 2011 at 9:42 AM

    Hi Jake, you can read all about it here http://dcptool.sourceforge.net/Hue%20Twists.html

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  5. Jake RussellApril 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    Thanks Nik. Two more things. First, would you mind highlighting the benefits of using these camera profiles over using the Adobe Standard? Second, I see all of these options (e.g. D2X Mode 1, Mode 2, Camera Landscape, Camera Vivid, Camera Portrait...). When, where, why would I use these? Are there any rules of thumb to live by when applying different profiles to different images? Thank in advance.

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  6. Jake RussellApril 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM

    Sorry, one more thing... If I take my NEF files and make a copy and convert to DNG, do I still need to apply a -0.5 exposure adjustment in order to achieve the look of View NX/Capture NX?

    I was reading some things in the linked forum from Eric Chan, but it wasn't clear if the exposure compensation was only for NEF files or if you converted to DNG file that it applied there as well. Thanks Nik!

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  7. NikApril 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    These profiles mimic the in-camera jpeg colours and tone curve. You can use them however you like, there are no rules. Your camera manual will explain what they are were intended for but the names are pretty self explanatory except for the D2X profiles which mimic the older D2X profiles. Nikon made the D2X profiles available for newer cameras because a lot of people liked them.

    The exposure compensation for the V3 profiles will have to be applied to DNG as well. You can test that pretty easily to confirm it.

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  8. matt shumateSeptember 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    Curious if there's going to be an untwisted profile for the D3s. Just picked one up & it seems like the profile's lacking when compared to my D3.

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  9. NikSeptember 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM

    There are untwisted & invariant profiles for the D3s but not the Beta versions as far as I'm aware.

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  10. matt shumateSeptember 8, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Thanks. Not quite as nice as the v3 beta, but it helps a bit.

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