Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
- Subject: Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:45:18 -0700
on 3/12/02 7:31 AM, email@hidden at email@hidden
wrote:
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Gauging from the responses I've gotten from my question (again, thank you
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to everyone who responded with good information...and thank you Andrew),
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I'm most likely going to abandon color managing the front end (capture) for
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the time being. I'll keep plugging at it as time allows, maybe
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experimenting with custom capture targets and so forth. There just seem to
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be too many variables to do it properly, and certainly a good amount of
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voodoo involved (IMHO).
I wouldn't give up. Realize that you need some description of RGB from the
device to edit the file in Photoshop with any degree of accuracy. You can
use a canned profile, create a synthetic profile (using an edited Working
Space) or use a stand alone product to build a profile. Whatever works best
for you. But you need to tag the files with something. If you are lucky
enough to bring an untagged camera file into Photoshop and it looks good on
your calibrated display, then the preferred RGB Working Space currently
loaded is the "correct" description. That sometimes works. But sometimes
it's not very pretty (like the old Nikon D1. Even when Nikon suggested the
raw data was NTSC-RGB, it still looked awful).
One of the reasons I have to have so many packages is that I never know what
camera system I'll run into. I know that if for example, I'm going to have
to profile a Kodak DCS camera with files coming out of the older Kodak
Acquire module, several products (ICC Dcam, ProfileMaker, InCamera) will
work just fine. But send me into an environment with some camera I've never
worked with and depending on the host software among other things, I may
have to try a number of solutions until I hit the best one.
I haven't had any particular issues with the LightPhase camera backs.
Andrew Rodney
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