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With the exception of some prominent supporters of Adobe Camera Raw, most colour management experts argue that using camera profiles will improve the colour quality of your images. Magne Nilsen gained a reputation for his D60 profiles. He has now opened Etcetera, offering ICC profiles for different cameras. Among his first offering is a pair of profiles - high and low saturation versions - for the Canon EOS 10D intended for use with Capture One DSLR. I added gamut plots for these to my Gamut Comparisons page.
The examples include D30, D60 (courtesy of Hans Van Rafelghem) and 10D (including one from Christian Kuiphoff) images.
Update 25 Jun '04: Hans Van Rafelghem has kindly provided some examples of images taken with his new Canon EOS 1D Mk II.
Using the C1 10D Generic profile, I adjusted each image for exposure compensation, levels and curves to give a good-looking picture. I did not adjust gray balance except on the profile target subject. Saturation was left at 0%; sharpening was left at my default setting of soft/300/1. I didn't worry too much, if this was the optimum setting or not, except I reduced settings for the profile target because the sharpening haloes were very obvious on the edges of the colour patches.
I developed each image three times to 8-bit TIFF - changing the camera profile each time - into the ProPhoto RGB colour space - this is my default working space and I plan to do some gamut analysis on the images. I used Fred Miranda's Web Presenter to downsize the images to a long side of 600 pixels. Images were converted to sRGB and saved with ProJPEG using a medium-high quality setting.
Click on a thumbnail to view the different versions of each image. The file names are coded to identify the profile and/or converter.
Update 25 Jun '04: I have never got around to completing a formal analysis, but my opinion and, it seems, the consensus of most users of the Etcetera profiles is that they are superior to the Capture 1 provided profiles.