-Scott

http://blog.rusticolus.co.uk/2009/08/create-custom-colour-profile-for-your.html

Looking at the video above, it does look like the colorchecker passport is more practical in the field though and the export plug-in seems a little easier than the profile editor!

Also, the red channel is totally out of wack in Lightroom’s interpretation of Sony Raw Files. It makes LR near useless.

I also just found out about an interesting tool that lets you make your own custom profiles. It’s called the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. I can’t say I have tried one yet but the promo video makes it look pretty powerful and I am big fan of X-Rite’s other products. Here’s a link to it from Amazon.

Here’s a video on how this gizmo works.

Again, I have not tried one but I am intrigued.

–David

Thanks for your comments. I didn’t know that the profiles for the Sony Alpha were missing so I did a little bit of research. I did indeed find 3rd party profiles for that camera here.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&message=29151124

But I also found a post that makes me think that Adobe’s profiles are available for that camera if you convert your files to DNG. For more on this, and lots more detail on the camera profiles feature in general, try this link.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/the_dng_profile_editor.html

I hope this helps, but since I don’t have that camera please let me know if this is lousy advise.

–David

There are however various profiles created by third parties that you can download from the web.