So, I tried to edit an ICC file in a hex editor to put the values from that 
website, and, just as expected, got nonsensical results.

After that I tried another idea to snatch better color profiles — I searched 
the web for Adobe Camera Raw package, extracted the profiles from it (they are 
in .dcp format), and figured that it's possible to convert them to ICC by 
dcamprof.
They seem to work very well — better than the currently built-in input profiles 
for sony a5100 in darktable.
Now what do you think about the copyright status of these converted ICC 
profiles? Can they legally be distributed with darktable, or should I keep them 
only for myself?
They are a lot smaller than the source .dcc files, probably because they don't 
keep nothing valuable except the color matrices. So are 3x3 numeric matrices 
copyrightable?

If you think these profiles can be officially added to darktable, I may fix the 
name tags and submit a pull request.

> On 4 May 2018, at 17:14, Sarge Borsch <sausagefacto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> I see that there are measured color responses at 
> https://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Sony/A5100---Measurements
> Hence the question: is it a good idea to try to take the built-in profile and 
> replace the primaries with these measured values, in order to get closer to 
> the in-camera JPEG color rendering? (or are they already used?)
> 
> I'm asking that because I've noticed that none of the built-in input color 
> profiles for sony a5100 allows me to get close to the in-camera JPEG colors.
> The 2 of them which are the closest to the correct rendering (that is, 
> matching camera JPEG, which is quite good when judging by eye) are the 
> "standard color matrix" and "linear Rec2020 RGB".
> Both of them wildly differ from the in-camera JPEG in deep blue colors: 
> "standard color matrix" causes them to be clipped and to look really 
> unnatural, and "linear Rec2020 RGB" looks more or less natural, but the hue 
> is obviously different (blue gets moved to cyan). Hence I started to wonder 
> how easy is it to get a better color profile.
> 
> I know that ideally this should be done with a color chart, but I don't have 
> one and don't have spare money for it at the moment.
> 
> Also I can share a shot of the example object (Raw + JPEG) which has such 
> problematic color if anyone wants to test it, too.

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