Canon 1DMk4 … 1200D : we calibrated the standard rendering of these cameras, this one will be identical to “default rendering” you get if you open an image of these cameras.
Thing is, it was not OK for some colors (red and pink) when they are saturated. So we calibrated also the neural rendering of the cameras and that’s what you have with line Canon 1DMk4 … 1200D neutral.
This prompts the question, if the “neutral” rendering is better, why bother keeping the default one? Or is that because it was perceived that some people want the “imperfection”?
@Joanna if you don’t have really saturated pink or red rendering was fine. Neutral rendering was added later than standard one, when people were already using it so we we didn’t want to break things and prefer propose a possibility to solve issue if people have it.
… but, if one did then the solution is to use the “Neutral rendering” alternative.
In which case, would it not have been better to have simply replaced the original rendering with the neutral rendering algorithm ('cos those who did not have the problem would not notice, and those who did would have that problem solved) … Or, am I being too simplistic ?
I played around with the two renderings and found that the “neutral” rendering changes the looks of an image too much - and that I’d not want to have any of the two removed.
Overall, the neutral rendering has its uses, but renaming it to “reduce reds” would make things clearer - use tool tips for a longer text.