Re: Digital Camera Profiling
Re: Digital Camera Profiling
- Subject: Re: Digital Camera Profiling
- From: Robin Myers <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:23:15 -0700
Kevin Cunningham wrote:
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Hi,
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I'm looking for people's opinions on digital camera profiling. What
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works, what doesn't. Software choices that sort of thing. I'm trying to
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decide on whether to buy a package or not. From what I've read here and
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in other places there does not seem to be a consensus on the merits of
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profiling a digital camera. I've read Rob Galbraith's recent comments
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which were very interesting but I'm still not getting a sense of what I
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could expect to achieve by using a colour management workflow with a
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digital camera. Is it worth it or are there just too many variables to
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control? Any feedback would be appreciated.
There is a new article on the www.rmimaging.com website in the
Information area that describes four uniquely different color management
scenarios for digital photography. It is based upon several years'
research into how photographers work and their requirements for color management.
To summarize, color management can play a very important and vital role
in digital photography, depending on the photographer's needs. In
quantity of images taken, most images fall into the "pleasing color"
category where color management requirements are minimal and plugins
such as Adobe Raw can meet the needs or the camera is designed to
reference the images to sRGB, Adobe RGB or some other defined space.
For "advertising color" the color management needs are slightly
different but can easily be met by assigning the working space profile
or the monitor profile.
The most color accurate demanding photography situations, "reproduction
with knockout" and "exact reproduction" require custom profiles.
Robin Myers
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