White Balance and Colour Correction

I've had an Expodisc (www.expodisc.com) for a few months and absolutely love it. It's been fabulous to get an accurate white balance in even the craziest of lighting circumstances. So now I shoot RAW and use manual white balance - which is really easy on the Pentax *ist-D which has 3 manual settings.

In addition, I decided to get a QPcard 201 (www.qpcard.com) which has some interesting properties. The card itself has colour patches with an even spectrum, thus making it suitable for use under all kinds of lighting conditions (you don't get the metamemerism effect where the perceived colour changes under different lighting conditions). The software they provide allows you to correct the image colour and simulate "Neutral", "Velvia", and "Sinar". Now that's very nice... but my workflow is RAW and their software only works on JPGs. So the hunt is on to create a half decent ICC profile that can be used in Capture One....

Now I have an Agfa IT8 target, a QPcard 201, and the Expodisc I should be able to get a profile created... somehow! (I know there's stuff on www.aim-dtp.net, but I want to create three profiles: neutral, Velvia, and Sinar.) If anyone's got any ideas that don't involve hugely expensive software, do email me (mattmatic at hotmail dot com)!!