Profiling Digital Cameras
Profiling Digital Cameras
- Subject: Profiling Digital Cameras
- From: Jan-Peter Homann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:47:58 +0000
Hi List
There were a lot of good postings in the list about this theme. I wan4t
to share my view with the community.
Working with digital cameras and Photoshop, the goal of every input
solution has to be a good conversion from the RAW-Data of the camera to
the actual RGB-Workingspace. This can be done with:
- The original camera plugin
- Third party products like Camera RAW
- An ICC-Transformation from an individual input-profile to the actual
working space.
The best solution is the one, which gives the best results in the eyes
of the user.
As Digital photography is technical much more complex as scanning, color
management solutions adressing this market must have different technical
concepts.
At least it must be an integrated solution with image-analysis and
-optimization of the RAW-Data. A 100% ICC-solution would need an
individual profile for every lightning situation. This is gerenal not
possible, but it works in special situations like digital catalog
photography with same lightning and objects of similar size.
(problems are still there when the photographed objects have heavy
optical brightners, but such objects offen causes problems also in
traditional photography...)
For other purposes, we need a integrated solution with some kind of
generic characterization of the camera, image-optimization and
colormanagement-link to the RGB-workingspace of Photoshop.
Camera RAW seems be very near to such kind of solution. What I would
like would be some kind of Camera RAW Developer Kit for the generic
characterization of a camera. Knowing the limitations of actual
workflows for camera profiling, such developer-Kit should at least cost
3000$ This is a price which only professional photographers and color
management consultants would pay and which would be adequate to the
support Adobe has to give.
But when it helps to make definitely better solutions for the users of
digital cameras, I as a colormanagement consultant would pay 3000$ for
such solution instead of 1000$ for a classical profiling solution for
digital cameras.
:-) Jan-Peter Homann
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