craygc
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In the chance others may find this useful, I just wanted to share the outcome of trying to resolve issues (they've been my issues so YMMV) I've had with achieving good B&W conversions in Capture One with the Sony A7II. My objective here has been to try and get a reasonably good replication of B&W film tonality; I was doing ok with Ricoh GR files but just could not achieve similar with the Sony.
I've now concluded that (my) main issue with the Sony has been the colours arising from the camera profiles applied in the RAW converter. With Capture One I now find I'm get closer to a film like tonality - using Silver Efex for conversion - without punchy colours if I apply the Mamiya M31, Outdoor Daylight, Film Standard profile to the Sony RAW. There are slight colour balancing side effects which I find corrects reasonably well with a touch of red in the highlights, a touch of cyan in the shadows, with midtones vary but finding a touch of magenta often seems a good starting point. Attached is an example of the colour difference between the profiles in which no other adjustments have been made.
Interested to hear what others might think...
I've now concluded that (my) main issue with the Sony has been the colours arising from the camera profiles applied in the RAW converter. With Capture One I now find I'm get closer to a film like tonality - using Silver Efex for conversion - without punchy colours if I apply the Mamiya M31, Outdoor Daylight, Film Standard profile to the Sony RAW. There are slight colour balancing side effects which I find corrects reasonably well with a touch of red in the highlights, a touch of cyan in the shadows, with midtones vary but finding a touch of magenta often seems a good starting point. Attached is an example of the colour difference between the profiles in which no other adjustments have been made.
Interested to hear what others might think...
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