Adobe vs Pentax

[AndrewShirley]

Some discussion this morning got me thinking about the difference between the Adobe and Pentax colour profile in Lightroom 2. So, I processed two pictures with the only difference being the choice of colour profile.

Here they are:





Here's a little fun to start the day... can you all pick the Pentax profile? I'll post results later this week.

- Andrew

[skamaraju]

First one is Pentax?

[djayvo]

The first photo you don’t look as grey. From what I hear Pentax is more true to life in color retention so I will vote that the bottom one is Pentax and top is Adobe.

[AndrewShirley]

BTW: That's not me

[dopeytree]

I think the bottom one but I'm not 100% :S

[Jodokast96]

I'm guessing #2 as well.

[Jasvox]

regardless of which is which, a tiny tiny bit of white balance adjustment can make them look identical.

Jason

[AndrewShirley]

I accept that challenge, do your best and feel free to post here

- Andrew

Originally Posted by Jasvox

regardless of which is which, a tiny tiny bit of white balance adjustment can make them look identical.

Jason

[Jasvox]

It wasn't a challenge.

Jason

[AndrewShirley]

I turned it into one.

- Andrew

[stewart_photo]

What's the point, Andrew? The differences are minimal, but some will obviously prefer one color profile over the other. Since both profiles are available, that clearly isn't a problem.

stewart

[AndrewShirley]

I don't know if I would call that minimal, its a pretty big difference in skin colour on my monitor.

You're right though, there's no problem - especially, as you say everyone has access to these colour profiles. And to be fair, I never said there was a problem.

I WAS hoping, however, that we could all have a little fun with the guessing game, so that's the point I suppose. Enjoy!


- Andrew

ps... did you pick one yet?

[Alfisti]

Some freaky responses to this thread IMHO, talk aboutnot answering the freakin question and nit picking.

Thi sis my number one issue with shooting RAW, I find it VERy h ard to nail the colour using Adobe products but there is nothing out there with the same work flow. I vote Pentax is the second image as i find Adobe often results in a red cast after conversion.

I am very sensitive to colour and IMHO the first is far, far too red and if you cannot see the difference int he two then your monitor needs calibration.

[AlphaGAK20D]

I'm going with first pic as the Pentax profile.

[Fl_Gulfer]

Number 2 is pentax.