Calibrating a Camera with DxO Optics Pro 4.x

by: Erik Vlietinck - Last Updated: Sun 06 May 2007

Calibrating or rather, profiling, a camera for colour management is quite difficult to do with Adobe Camera RAW. Let’s just say you need a script that performs some complicated tricks and you need to shoot a GretagMacbeth or other colour chart. It can be a lot more simple, though. DxO Optics Pro has a nifty “Export for ICC Profile” feature.

That feature, which you access from the File menu, has two settings: Linear RAW or DxO Realistic. The first is meant to give you a TIFF file that has an accurate, as raw as possible ICC profile for your camera, while the second gives you a TIFF that has been processed with the DxO Realistic Colour Rendition Profile (that means with the greatest possible color fidelity to the source) . Both TIFF files serve as the basis for your profile, which you’ll create in ProfileMaker Pro or some other colour profiling application.

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