Presets break because sensors disagree. We built a lab so they can't.
NIPIK looks are not slider recipes — they are grades authored on top of measured, per-body camera calibration. This page is the short version of how that works.
The accent every camera hides in your files
Point five bodies at the same chart and you get five different readings of the same physical color. The drift is small enough to miss and large enough to ruin a grade — reds shift toward orange, blues pick up cyan, skin loses its blood.
That drift is measured and removed for every supported body before a NIPIK look is even designed. The grade is authored once, on neutral ground — then verified back against the chart, body by body.
Four stages, one ship gate
Capture
Every supported body photographs physical color targets under two controlled illuminants — daylight and tungsten. Real charts, real glass, no synthetic sensor math.
Profile
From those captures we build a dual-illuminant camera profile per body — the neutral foundation no slider recipe can fake. This is where the sensor's accent is neutralized.
Grade
The NIPIK look is authored on top of calibration — hue by hue, tone by tone — as a color instrument. Skin is protected first; atmosphere is built around it.
Verify
Back to the chart. Every look is re-measured on every body and re-baked until it lands. Nothing ships above a mean ΔE of 2 — most land well under 1.
47 bodies profiled. Counting.
The current calibration set, measured in-house on production bodies — not spec sheets. If your camera isn't here yet, tell us; popular requests enter the next lab cycle.
- SONY α1 II profiled
- SONY α7R V profiled
- SONY α7 IV profiled
- CANON EOS R5 II profiled
- CANON EOS R6 III profiled
- CANON EOS R8 profiled
- NIKON Z8 profiled
- NIKON Z9 profiled
- NIKON Zf profiled
- FUJIFILM X-T5 profiled
- FUJIFILM X-H2S profiled
- FUJIFILM GFX100 II profiled
- LEICA Q3 profiled
- LEICA SL3 profiled
- LEICA M11 profiled
- HASSELBLAD X2D profiled
- PANASONIC S5 IIX profiled
- OM SYSTEM OM-1 II profiled
- + 29 more full list at launch
Asked often, answered plainly
Why do presets look different on my camera?
Because a preset is math applied on top of a camera profile — and every manufacturer interprets color differently. The same slider recipe lands on a different starting point on a Sony than on a Canon. NIPIK looks ship with per-body calibration underneath, so every body starts from the same measured baseline and the look sits the way it was designed to.
What does “dual-illuminant” actually mean?
Each body is profiled under two reference light sources — daylight (D65) and tungsten (Std-A). Lightroom interpolates between them by white balance, which keeps the calibration honest from noon sun to candlelight instead of only in one lighting condition.
What ships in a NIPIK collection?
The presets themselves, the calibrated camera profiles they stand on, and install notes for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom and mobile. When we re-bake a look after a field revision, updates are free for the batch.