Hi,
It is my pleasure to join this forum and I wish good shooting luck to all members.
I am far from being an expert in colour management, but I am aware of its importance and struggle quite frequently with setting the right colours of my pictures. I have Colorvision Spider 2 Pro and Huey (plus Printfix Pro but this is irrelevant for the issue raised below). However, I am still not sure of having a good enough colour reproduction.
I have a Nikon D300 (which will be replaced with a D700 soon) and an Eizo 997 monitor.
My question is the following: Is it possible to calibrate the colour reproduction of the whole chain of camera/row converter/monitor in the following way:
• Calibrating the monitor in the usual way for the given light environment of the “dark room”. (I think the well known monitor calibration process can be handled separately, because – at least in my understanding – its role is “only” to present “ideal colours” on the screen with due consideration of several factors, although this issue obviously much more complicated. I intend to focus rather on the next steps.)
• Taking pictures of a colour checker chart lit by light sources of different colour temperatures, with the camera.
• Opening the pictures in the raw converter, preferably with the built-in (camera-specific but generic) camera profile switched off and all parameters are set to neutral. If the camera profile cannot be switched off, a kind of “differential profile” will be the result.
• Measuring the colours of the chart on the screen, one-by-one (similarly to the measurement of printed charts), for each picture (taken at different colour temperatures).
• Let the camera profile editor process all the values read from the screen to generate a custom camera profile.
At the end of the day, I would like to see the same colours on the screen that have been shot.
Is it possible to set of such a calibration work flow, and with what calibration tools?
Your input would be highly appreciated.