How to find the correct ICC profiles

I first described this method in this discussion. To find the correct color profiles for your camera, you must first install Canon Digital Photo Professional. You also need a file monitoring application. I used Filemon but you will probably use its successor Process Monitor

• start Process Monitor
• start Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP)
• See in Process Monitor what files are opened by DPP
• Now open a raw file from your camera in DPP
• See in Process Monitor what ICC files are opened. These are the profiles DPP uses for your camera.
• Now change the picture style in DPP and see what other profiles are used.
• Find the files and use them with UFRaw with Gamma=0.45, Linearity=0.10

ICC Profiles for various Canon cameras

The profile names all have the following form:

• 6131_F.ICC for Faithful Picture Style
• 6131_L.ICC for Landscape Picture Style
• 6131_N.ICC for Neutral Picture Style
• 6131_P.ICC for Portrait Picture Style
• 6131_S.ICC for Standard Picture Style

Where the first four digits are different for the different camera types. 6131 as used above is the profile number for a Canon 400D. The next table shows the profile number for various Canon cameras.

Note: The numbers that have not been confirmed have been marked with a ‘?’. So the standard ICC Color Profile for a Canon 300D is 6031_S.ICC and for a Canon 5D it is 6091_S.ICC.

Links

• HOWTO: Use UFRaw with Canon SLR
• Forum discussion with a list of canon camera’s and profile numbers.

This info is not up to date for recent camera models or recent versions of DPP. So if you have some information of recent camera’s please leave a response.

Create your own ICC profile

You can always create your own ICC profile. Here you’ll find a description by Pascal de Bruijn.