Lightroom Preset: Leica M8 Colors with your NikonWritten by: Max Penson A few weeks ago a kammagamma reader asked me if it is possible to set Adobe Lightroom to mimic his Leica M8 colors with Nikon D3 RAW files. For those of you who don’t own a Leica M8 rangefinder, Leica M8 captures DNG files with gamma and color settings that were designed by Leica. So when opening Leica M8 DNG files in Lightroom or ACR, a “Leica” color look is being applied to the images. Long story short, it’s rather simple to mimic those setting with lightroom for Nikon cameras and I think most of you might find this preset interesting. I’ve tested this preset with some Canon cameras and it was quite close (although in theory it should be the same), but there is more accuracy with Nikon D3/D300 cameras. If there is going to be demand for this preset I’ll try to produce a more accurate Canon version. Please do let me know how this preset works for you. |
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March 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I want to know if it can work for Kodak SLR/N?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
L.S.
If you look at your/the kammagamm description of Leica colors:
http://kammagamma.com/articles/m8-colors.php
Then your preset is way too red, and the subtle hue changes aren’t visible. I actually prefer on the above site. When I download the photographs from that site(the d300 colored ones) and add them to my lightroom library, and use your preset, I get very diferent results. Although i would love it work, since I adore the colors of the M8, but unfortunately can’t own it, and use my D80.
Thanks for the effort, but maybe a remake? I would love that!
July 20th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I came across this blog the other day and you got some great info here – thanks.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Outstanding work! This has become a staple of my workflow. Thanks so much!
December 8th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Nice post. Thank you for the info. Keep it up.
August 10th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Will the preset work with PS4 and Adobe camera raw?
H
August 13th, 2009 at 8:03 am
hi max
pardon my ignorance on the conversion of Leica M8 Colors with Nikon…
how do I do it?…assuming that I have already Adobe lightroom installed on my laptop.
hope you enlighten me..
thank you
Alex
August 13th, 2009 at 8:27 am
hi max
Im using photoshop cs3…is it possible to convert the lrt. file to atn. file so that I can load it to action?….
thanks a lot
Alex
November 1st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Nice work. I would love to see a similar preset for Canon cameras.
April 19th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
[...] refuted by your Puts citation), some folks have wanted to convert their Nikons to Leica color. See KammaGamma � Articles � Lightroom Preset: Leica M8 Colors with your Nikon. I know, that's what you've been saying all along. __________________ Best, Howard Cornelsen [...]
April 27th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Thanks for the preset I’ll give it a try with my D300 photos. There is great work here and a fascinating site. Thanks again, Sergey
January 20th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Just curious if you were planning a LR3 version of this preset that builds off of the new Adobe Standard raw profile. Thanks, Ryan
March 1st, 2011 at 6:56 pm
[...] but that is just because I was busy with other projects. Since there is a lot interest with the Leica M8 for Nikon cameras preset I did a while back, I thought it’s a good idea to update that the real thing is now [...]