Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
- Subject: Re: BW previewing and DigCamera profiling
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:43:30 EST
In a message dated 3/22/01 7:25:23 PM, email@hidden writes:
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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.
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David,
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I have not had the pleasure of using the E-10, but in regard to the D1
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I have
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to disagree.
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I'm sure you'll agree that sRGB is a totally inappropriate working space
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for
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digital capture.
That's what that <G> is for. I was recently told (no NDA, in a public place)
that the upcoming derivatives of the D1 will use AdobeRGB as their target
space. I guess that demo I've been doing of proofing an E-10 image back to
sRGB and showing the gamut clipping might have ruffled a few feathers...
If you disregard the Nikon capture software (that is,
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DON'T
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buy it) but get a copy of MacBibble (bibblelabs.com) you can process a
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raw
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.NEF file into a 16 bit Tiff without any colour corrections. From this
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build
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a profile, etc, etc. The colour improvement is dramatic by comparison to
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using
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the Nikon approach.
Sorry to hear you find it necessary to throw away all the image info from
your very expensive camera, and start from scratch! But be assured this is a
Nikon issue, not a general limitation!
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Why can't the camera manufacterers see beyond just getting a pretty image
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up
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on screen so as to sell their cameras? All they need to do is offer two
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options
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in the capture software. One, the "pretty picture" option to sell the cameras
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and for the die hards, a "linear" option. This way photographers could
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get to
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milk all the information from the CCD.
The E-10 offers both, plus a version in between for its raw captures, for the
compressed images, the processed version is the only option; but the
processed version is excellent, so I have no problem with that.
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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.
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Is it not important, particularly at the start of the workflow, to define
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the
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colour before it gets to the monitor space?
Yes, if its not right already... I'm simply stating that I see no room for
improvement there with the E-10, unless it misses the white point in an
interior shot, and requires a quick white point adjustment.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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