Different approach to incorporating camera calibration directly into raw workflow

[Reflex]

I just purchased Calibrite Colo(u)rChecker Studio. Perhaps in ignorance I chose it over SpyderX as Data Colour seemed only to work with Adobe whereas Calibrite exported icc profiles.

Anyhoo, trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out the most suitable workflow I had IMHO a great feature idea.

If someone owned a photo spectrometer, imagine being able to connect that directly to Affinity Photo (in Develop mode) and scan colour patches with it. It wouldn't have to be an official colour card etc, but any collection of swatches which was used in the photo. Better yet, have a card like the normal ones you buy with a row of colours, and link the physical card with the card in the photo. AP could automatically make adjustments (to a batch of images) to match the photo colours to the physical sample.

The benefit of this (if I'm thinking through this correctly) is that the colour card wouldn't need to match "official" sample colours and fading is less relevant as the software won't be matching a standard, but the physical card used in the photo. You could even print your own as long as there is a range of hues and brightnesses. Imagine the savings in doing that!

In fact, AP would only need to rescan the sample at some interval to adjust for colour changes over time, as long as that card is used in the shots.

Ok. Fire retardant in place. Interested in anyone's thoughts (especially Serif's).

[walt.farrell]

As far as I know, Affinity Photo has no support at all for camera calibration. 

So a necessary first step would be having some kind of support for camera ICC profiles.

[Reflex]

On 1/18/2023 at 12:57 AM, walt.farrell said:

So a necessary first step would be having some kind of support for camera ICC profiles.

Not necessarily. It doesn't need to be done using profiles. It could scan the patches to create a LUT or even bundle all the required adjustments into one "developer preset" which could be applied to batches of raw images.