Re: Nikon D1x
Re: Nikon D1x
- Subject: Re: Nikon D1x
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:30:15 EDT
I think they are doing several things. First is the color space encoding,
i.e. the name of the output color space (sRGB, AdobeRGB, etc.) The second is
the look or rendering (contrast setting, color mode, etc.). However, they
roll it all into what they call a Color Mode. The Color Mode you select
combines the encoding and the rendering. Its a little confusing because the
user can't easily separate the two. For instance, if you prefer Color Mode
III rendering but want AdobeRGB encoding, then the easiest way to do it is to
convert in PhotoShop.
ICC profiles are not really the issue, its just that from what I've seen, the
profiling S/W providers don't take the profiles far enough. That is they tend
to treat cameras like scanners and not like, uh, cameras. So if you create
camera profiles you can expect, them to be at best colorimetricaly accurate.
Its kind of like stopping at the color space encoding step without performing
the rendering step.
That is not to say that camera profiling is not worth doing for some
workflows. You may want to remove color casts or other obvious problems or
make several cameras behave more similarly. But you may likely have to do
your own rendering in an image editor to get the look you like. This can be
tedious, difficult, and you may or may not end up doing any better than using
the Color Modes and some tweaking.
If you must profile, the best profiling results seem to be achieved when the
innate rendering is a mild as possible, at least for every camera I've
profiled. For Nikon DSLRs, I get the best results by locking everything down
to Adobe RGB, Less Contrast, and Daylight.
Eric Walowit
Tahoe
In a message dated 4/5/2003 11:29:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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>Roger,
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>If you open your Nikon raw files in NC 3.5, you can have any one of eight
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>working spaces 'slapped on' your image. On the other hand, they may be
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>converted from a native space in NC. With my D100, there are 23
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>D100-specific profiles - they must be doing something. Anyone know
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precisely
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>what?
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>Bob Frost.
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Bob,
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I am very curious to know what they're doing. To me, those 23 D100-specific
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"profiles" are just a bunch of output presets.
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Roger Breton
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Laval, Canada
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