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Re: pictogram's Incamera

Title: Re: pictogram's Incamera
In a message dated Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:48:08, Eugene Appert wrote:

Thanks again  for your answer,  you are helping me get a grasp of this.  Your explanation for the “happy  coincidence” that I encountered...

whereby the  standard profile (applied to the image by default by the image capture  software) interprets the chart values correctly because, possibly, it so  happens to be a valid profile for the particular camera and situation used in  capturing the image.

has got me wondering about my ability  to strip it from the file as I thought I had.

I don't know your software, but perhaps there is a preference or a setting in it where you can determine whether a profile gets attached to the captured image or not. And if it is not feasible to leave the file without a color profile in the capture software, still it's fairly easy to assign another profile in Adobe Photoshop. If you have several images, you can create a batch action for that task of reassigning a different profile.

It never really made sense to me why Nikon Capture would want to attribute an RGB workspace to the camera data

No matter whether the digital capture is in RAW format or otherwise, it is always in RGB, since the camera's capture elements are themselves RGB. That is why.

but  I assumed that this was an attribution and not a conversion through an  invisible camera profile, so I just stripped it off afterwards. But it sounds  as if you are saying that Nikon has used its own cryptic camera profile just a  Camera Raw does

I'm not sure what you mean by "cryptic": it's probably a profile like many others, an honest attempt to describe the device's color behavior; if in the end it turns out to be good or bad is a matter to be assessed by the user.

and actually converts the data to the RGB space chosen.

In  which case I wouldn’t know how you would attribute a third party profile to a  Nikon Camera.

Is Nikon Capture converting my file to an RGB workspace through a  generic profile?
 
So far I have limited myself to sketching out a more general framework, but unfortunately what you refer to here goes into this software's specifics, beyond what I am capable of talking about semi-intelligently. Others may provide more pertinent and detailed replies to your queries.

Best regards.

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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA 
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