Re: Problem printing images from a D-1x
Re: Problem printing images from a D-1x
- Subject: Re: Problem printing images from a D-1x
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:18:40 -0700
on 12/13/01 3:32 PM, Allan Rosen-Ducat at email@hidden wrote:
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The new source is a Nikon D-1x, file format is .tif... The file views fine
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under the default CMYK setting in Photoshop after being imported with NO
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attached profile.
How can an RGB file from a digital camera have any effect on preview based
on a CMYK Setting (it can't).
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My default RGB setting for photoshop is my monitor
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profile, it seems to closly match the genric RGB Colorsync Profile with a
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slight density shift.
You don't want to use your monitor profile as a working space! Use a working
space like ColorMatch RGB or Adobe RGB 1998. You CAN tell the D1X software
to save files in Adobe RGB 1998 (although I don't completely trust the
software). You'd be better off with a custom profile of the camera but
that's at least a start.
BTW, I've found you have the option of setting the camera to produce either
sRGB or Adobe RGB (Nikon does something really stupid by using a profile
with Nikon in the front of the name but the profile IS for all practical
purposes sRGB or Adobe RGB). But if you ask for a raw file, you don't really
get a raw file, you get a file who's colorspace is either sRGB or Adobe RGB.
Dumb but consistent with Nikon's misunderstanding of how color management
should work. At least you can set the camera to provide you with a file that
is reasonably close to those spaces (although what Nikon is using to convert
TO that source is unknown).
I have had good success profiling the D1X and D1H using a standard Macbeth
Color Target with both ICC Dcam from ProfileCity and ProfileMaker Pro's
module for digital cameras. MUCH better color than what you'd get right off
the camera.
Andrew Rodney