Re: Coloreyes 20/20 camera profiles
Re: Coloreyes 20/20 camera profiles
- Subject: Re: Coloreyes 20/20 camera profiles
- From: Mark Buckner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:44:55 -0600
Hi Edmund,
I must respectfully disagree, to a point. If we're going to make analogies
to the "bad old days", the film manufacturers were only peripherally
involved in CM, in the sense that they tried as best they could to get
emulsions to match from batch to batch, within the limits of the chemical
and mechanical processes employed. If they were really "color managed" to
the extent we expect today, I would not have had to waste so much time and
money on testing film emulsions prior to important assignments.
I would submit that the real CM chain back then began with the scanner that
"captured" the image from our chromes. Now WE are the scanner operators and
the scanners are our digicams. So, the responsibility shifts from the
scanner operator to the photographer.
I agree that it would be great if camera manufacturers would give us a great
tool like this for "free". I'd also like free monitor profiling software
with my next display, free scanner profiling software with my scanner, and
most of all, free profiling software and a spectro to read targets with my
next printer. Not going to happen though, and if it did, we'd all be paying
for it one way or another. Nothing is really "free" with software bundles.
You're paying for it whether you like it or not. Ironically, the DSLR
cameras which are (relatively) less expensive, actually benefit more from a
carefully crafted camera profile than the more expensive medium format
camera backs. This makes the investment seem more expensive compared to the
cost of the camera. We photogrpahers expect to be compensated for our hard
work and creativity. I don't begrudge software developers the same.
Finally, I'd like to suggest that applications like Coloreyes 20/20 (and
monitor, scanner and printer profiling tools as well) are just "tools" that
make for better images and higher productivity. The example I like to use
when talking to fellow photographers involves a carpentry analogy: You hire
a professional builder to build you a house. He COULD show up to work with
just a hammer and a bag of nails, but odds are he will arrive with an air
compressor and a pneumatic nail gun. Increased productivity and efficiency
benefits both the client and the contractor. So it is with profile building
tools. Yes, they're expensive, but if using them means that occasionally I
have my work finished in time to relax in front of the fire with my dogs and
my wife, as I did tonight, they're a bargain. And, I do agree that we should
be able to share the profiles we create for our own devices with our
clients, etc. for the sake of making everyone's life easier.
Just my $.02!
Regards,
Mark
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Mark Buckner
Staff Photographer
St. Louis Blues Hockey Club
St. Louis, MO USA
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