If you haven't taken a look at Part 1 of this, I'd strongly suggest you do - it's there that I set the scene for these charts, and talk about how to interpret them. Part two is here.
As a reminder, what we're looking at here is the color rendition embedded in the various default Adobe camera profiles for the Canon 5DII. We're looking at that for colors that approximate to the key color patches on a Gretag Macbeth 24 patch color chart. Also, remember that the various "camera" profiles are intended to mimic the camera settings, not necessarily to be what Adobe might consider to be pleasing color renditions.
Firstly, the Adobe Standard profile:

Now the Camera Standard Profile:

The Camera Portrait profile:

The Camera Neutral Profile:

The Camera Neutral profile is an interesting one. Both red and magenta a quite close to vanilla for a while, but them abruptly flatted out in value almost completely. Blue and cyan are compressed, and green twists quite substantially.
The Camera Landscape profile:

And finally, the Camera Faithful profile:

So what are commonalities?
- Well, there's a fairly common pattern of the the primaries (red, blue, green) being compressed, and for red to be twisted towards magenta, and blue towards magenta
- The skin tones tend to be left alone, probably because human vision is quite sensitive to any variation here. Similarly, yellow is mostly left alone, perhaps because its quite close to skin tones. Camera Landscape is the exception to yellows being fairly unprocessed, perhaps in the interest of more attractive greens
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