Leaf Color with Phase One
February 28th, 6-9pm, NYC
Starting even with their first digital camera in 1992, the color specialists in Leaf’s R+D team honed and maintained a unique set of color profiles. Adopted by many photographers in the fashion and portrait world, this look began to be referred to colloquially as the “Leaf Look”.
If you’ve ever used a Leaf digital back you already know the legendary color the color scientists at Leaf were able to finagle. When most camera companies were still learning to crawl (producing ugly skin tone, artifact-filled transitions, and a harsh digital look), Leaf was running (producing beautiful skin tone, smooth transitions, and film-like images).
Modern Leaf Color
When Phase One bought Leaf many Leaf customers feared they’d lose access to their beloved “Leaf Look”. For years Digital Transitions helped clients bridge this gap with presets, custom profiles, and color editor presets. These efforts were helpful, but never quite reached the results of a natively made Leaf profile. Well, it took a few more years than expected, but the merged color science teams at Phase One and Leaf have released “Leaf look” profiles for all modern Phase One digital backs, providing the look of a classic Leaf digital back with all the usability advantages, speed, and rock-solid performance of a Phase One digital back.
Hands-on Event
Come to our evening event to hear Niels V. Knudsen, Phase One’s Image Quality Professor, and Doug Peterson, DT’s Head of R+D, talk about the process and results of this effort, and more importantly, to get hands-on with the digital backs and software that make it possible. Doug will compare and contrast these profiles to the previous camera-matching profiling work that DT has done. Niels will also take Q&A and suggestions on future Capture One features and improvements.
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This is Niels. This is Niels in both Phase One (on the right) and Leaf color (on the left).
