Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
- Subject: Re: Profiling Digital Cameras
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:43:04 -0700
on 3/9/02 7:37 AM, Paul Guba at email@hidden wrote:
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The very nature of shooting a target makes it impractical
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to shoot a target for every scene. The target must be flatly lighted
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and ideally perfectly squared to the camera. I could not imagine
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shooting a catalog and having profiles for every setup.
That's because the camera manufacturers are so busy making bigger chips
(mine is bigger than yours) rather than concentrating on workflow and
getting great color.
To Kodak's credit, they have started down this path with the software that
drives the DCS ProBack whereby you can place a Macbeth in the scene and the
software will (almost) automatically create an ICC profile for use in all
subsequent captures. This is what we need from other manufacturers. A way to
produce custom profiles as the images are captured with little or no input
from the user. Of course Kodak takes two steps back by doing some really
goofy things like forcing "Look" profiles (actual device links) into the
chain, modifying the Macbeth TDF to produce results they like (meaning you
can't use a custom TDF in the software) and making it nearly impossible to
get raw data out of the camera should you want to do the profiling
elsewhere.
What we need is a way for users to create custom profiles quickly and easily
on site and have that automatically applied to all images in that shooting
situation. We should have the option to only tag the files or get full
processing out the back end into a preferred Working or Output space. The
meta-data in the files should reflect the processing.
The big problem I see with digital photography (pro stuff) is that the
cameras manufacturers by and large have ignored workflow.
Andrew Rodney
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