P: Support for Canon .CR3 Camera-matching Profiles

*Redmonk78 I tried the color profiles from color fidelity for the canon R5, and honestly I was severely disappointed. They barely made a noticeable difference for me and more closely resembled the Adobe standard profile in the instances in which I used them. To me, it was a waste of $25. If you have zero other option, meaning your camera doesn’t have a supported camera matching profile - maybe it’s worth a try for you. But that’s something you’d have to determine yourself. That’s the situation I was in. I tried to create my own profile, which also wasn’t satisfactory so Color Fidelity was next. I was simply frustrated to barely notice a file change when applied. Adobe profiles were just way too similar, and I honestly didn’t feel like I noticed a difference. 

*Redmonk78 to your first question : indeed the previews on LR mobile are not displaying the colors correctly when using those profiles (oversaturated), but when editing a shot it works very well, I can apply any profile I want and colorfidelity ones are working great. 

Now to your second question : it depend on your personnal taste and the camera you're using. I use a 90D and the colors from colorfidelity are very accurate, especially compared to Adobe's profiles. They are even better than CaptureOne's which are quite good. But colorfidelity profiles do not match canon's colors, which are not very reality-matching profiles. In my case, I use colorfidelity profiles as a starting point and I made several presets to match canon's colors for example. It's quite simple at this stage because colorfidelity profiles gives some nice separation between the different colors of the skin and the greens, it is easy using HSL and calibration to match canon's one. If you have the money you should definitliy have a look. They don't please to everyone (because they don't match canon's) but they are worth to have a look, and they are very color accurate. 

no not at all.... not better then the standard adobe profiles, maybe even more worse...

Good to know. Mr Walker from Color Fidelity told me that Lightroom Mobile is not able to read the new Adobe Extended Profile Format. Maybe he missed the workaround via the Desktop application.

By the way: is it worth to buy the color fidelity profiles for RAW editing?

*Redmonk78  strange, because I use LR mobile, and those profiles works. I simply imported me them into desktop and they synchronized 

Next problem: As I use mainly Lightroom on my iPad Pro I am not able to use alternative solutions like the ones from color fidelity. They confirmed to me that their customized profiles won‘t work on Lightroom Mobile. Therefore I have to wait for Adobe 😞

@Darrell Cadieux I do think this is super obnoxious and frustrating just like you probably do as well - but from what my colleagues have told me, I’d these profiles are reverse engineered by Adobe to be provided, I’m sure that’s not an easy feat especially if Canon isn’t helpful with their proprietary raw (from my understanding they don’t release info on their raw formats). I totally 100% get that it will take time to get them but I think past a year what’s frustrating. 

@andrew_rodney I actually have gone through the steps to do that, but it just is not remotely efficient or practical for me to do that. I’m a working photojournalist in arenas and stadiums and using an xrite just isn’t going to work. I can’t do that in the middle of a game. The color fidelity profiles aren’t any better than the Adobe standard profiles. Maybe I’m doing something incorrectly when I followed a users directions on here but it just didn’t work for me. It really didn’t remotely replicate how good the camera matching profiles are for my 1DX2. 

@Rikk Then do something about supporting colour profiles for a flagship camera of the worlds largest camera maker!

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