"Someone is looking for fish, someone is looking for wildfowl, someone is looking for mushrooms. Another is looking for money - and finds the wildfowl, mushrooms and fish." Mikhail Zhvanetsky Long and hard I had searched a way to get Nikon original colors for excellent professional raw converter Capture One, and finally I found them some months ago. Now I can make icc-profiles for Nikon cameras, released until 2014 (Nikon Df is last of them), and get colors in Capture One exactly the same as Nikon Capture NX-D. But there is an obvious question: How these colors match the Nikon original colors? Let’s try to find the answer. We need to take one image of color target (reference), developed in Capture NX-D, and the second image of color target (sample), developed in Capture One and test icc-profile. And we need to compare color patches. ( My NikonD5100-EO-NXD-Standard.icc and others files , ColorLab Utility Freeware , and Nikon D5100 source nef ) And now step by step.
There are a few generation of color modes that were implemented consistently by Nikon developers in digital cameras: CCD-sensor cameras, Nikon D2X, Picture control, Latest Picture control. In my opinion color modes for CCD-sensor and for Nikon D2X tried to be closer to the traditions of color film. There were developed D2X color modes in form Picture Control: D2XMODE1, D2XMODE2, D2XMODE3 for Nikon D3, D300, D700. For cameras released later support of color modes D2XMODE has stopped. In “Nikon original colors for Capture One” I told that I have idea how to make D2XMode icc profiles for these cameras. My method is quite simple. It is necessary to measure shift of color values between my NikonD300-EO-NXD-Neutral.icc and NikonD300-EO-NXD-D2XMode1.icc profiles. Then this measured shift is necessary add to my Nikon[CameraModel]-EO-NXD-Neutral.icc and get Nikon[CameraModel]-EO-NXD-D2XMode1.icc. To check it, in the studio I has took a photographs of color target with my Nikon