Lightroom Preset: Leica M8 Colors with your NikonA 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.