Tuesday, March 4, 2014

LightZone default Tone Curve for Canon 600D

Finally I have had some time to do some more experimenting. Some posts in the LZ forum hinted that there might be some issues with the Raw Tone Curve for Canon 600D. I unlocked the Tone Curve and just experimented changing the default mode "RGB" to "Luminosity". The difference is huge and the luminosity setting produces much more natural tones. The RGB image is over saturated.
RGB Tone Curve (default) Luminosity Tone Curve
As a reference, here is again the same image in DPP. The image in DPP is warmer (more yellow), but otherwise the overall saturation of reds and yellows are quite much alike with the luminosity setting and in DPP.
Canon's DPP

1 comment:

Langbard said...

Thanks for this post - I created a modified Raw Tone Curve for my 600D following Doug's instructions a while ago but must have lost it during the version upgrades. Having changed the setting to Luminosity as you suggest I have re-saved it in the CameraDefault folder.