Re: scanners ,gamuts, and urban myths
Re: scanners ,gamuts, and urban myths
- Subject: Re: scanners ,gamuts, and urban myths
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:08:17 -0500
Chris Daniels wrote:
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Essentially what I'm saying is a proprietary calibration (aka white balance)
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and a built-in mechanism for profiling (although not an ICC profiler at heart)
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so that the raw data is processed with this proprietary profiler in the raw
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converter software.
It seems to me, by reading the digital imaging litterature, for anything but
hi-end camera backs, that the trend is towards inclusion of ever more
sophisticated image-processing algorithms that automatically analyse a
scene, identify its white point and determine its exposure, apply "pleasing"
corrective filters and so on.
In that context, it seems that the ICC "world" are not getting their voice
heard by manufacturers? I believe that the new Canons and (soon) new crop of
Nikons are in this boat. Don9t know about the new Kodak N14.
My point is that manufacturers go to these PICS imaging conference and hire
color scientists to design ever-more "intelligent" algorithms to put in
their digital cameras so that, oout of the box, they have the best one --
never mind the ICC herd. Just look at EPSON PIM technology: have they never
heard of ICC profiling? Heck, Picto's InCamera has offered an InCamera OEM
licensing thing for years to help put ICC inside digital cameras and no one
(that I know of) bothered to license it!
The only place, in my view, where ICC is and will continue to find
acceptance is among the high-end, medium format, camera backs like the DCS
ProBack and the Sinars and the PhaseOne and so on. Can you imagine being
able to remotely control a Nikon D1x in your studio with the same software
for the Sinar or PhaseOne or the ProBack? A dream come true! But not for
tomorrow.
Regards,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
email@hidden
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