Re: calibrating monitors to what?
Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- Subject: Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:06:31 EST
In a message dated 10/27/01 7:28:42 PM, email@hidden
writes:
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I would think photographic emulsions "see" so much color -
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the LAST thing you would dream of doing would be
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putting them through sRGB.
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Even for archival files - I would use something
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able to contain more information than AdobeRGB.
True, but on a practical level this is not too significant. Take the same
photo (real content, studio or outdoor image etc... not some scientific
vector file) run from scannerspace through any of the "designer"
workingspaces like Ekta or PRO, and the same scan converted through AdobeRGB,
*if conversions are set accurately to offer similar saturation of colors that
are within both gamuts*, and then convert to an accurate output profile and
print to a wide gamut device like an Epson inkjet, or a LightJet, Lambda, or
Frontier, and you will be hard pressed to fine an image that will show a
difference.
Its largely differential workflow that increase *in-gamut* saturation that
people use as proof of the virtues of such designer workingspaces; one could
similarly use a different workflow that would increase the saturation of
AdobeRGB images above that of other spaces, as "proof" that it showed more
colors than the designer spaces... but that would be obviously false, rather
than subtly false.
The percentage of photos that actually manage to show significant, visually
noticable, color loss from a trip through AdobeRGB is very small. So small
that for many users and most output the hassle of oversize spaces is simply
not worthwhile. There are certainly pro photgraphers who will continue
(justifiably) to use such spaces to obtain the last possible nuance of color;
printable or not, but that is an extreme, not a typical, usage. Any image
destined for process printing, even on a hexachrome press, requires nothing
more than AdobeRGB.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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