Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
- Subject: Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
- From: Richard Millott <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:20:59 +1100
At 15:27 22/03/2001 EST, David wrote:
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Profiling is not going to offer an improvement on this, in fact it would
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caues more white casts than it eliminated, with changing lighting. I shoot
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with an Olympus E-10, and find that simply opening into the matching space
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(AdobeRGB in the E-10's case, sRGB for the D-1, at least for the current
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version <G>) is fine.
David,
I have not had the pleasure of using the E-10, but in regard to the D1 I have
to disagree.
I'm sure you'll agree that sRGB is a totally inappropriate working space for
digital capture. If you disregard the Nikon capture software (that is, DON'T
buy it) but get a copy of MacBibble (bibblelabs.com) you can process a raw
.NEF file into a 16 bit Tiff without any colour corrections. From this build
a profile, etc, etc. The colour improvement is dramatic by comparison to
using
the Nikon approach.
Why can't the camera manufacterers see beyond just getting a pretty image up
on screen so as to sell their cameras? All they need to do is offer two
options
in the capture software. One, the "pretty picture" option to sell the cameras
and for the die hards, a "linear" option. This way photographers could get to
milk all the information from the CCD.
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The only color management I need with such images is a
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hardware calibrated monitor, and good profiles for my printers and/or
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proofers.
Is it not important, particularly at the start of the workflow, to define the
colour before it gets to the monitor space?
Regards
Richard
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