Re: Best color space for film recorders?
Re: Best color space for film recorders?
- Subject: Re: Best color space for film recorders?
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:05:48 -0400
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Eric G writes ...
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> I'm faced with the task of prepping some files for output
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> on a film recorder. The existing files are CMYK and I was
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> wondering if there was an ideal space to convert them to for
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> this purpose. Obviously a wide space won't invent colors
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> that aren't there, but is one more appropriate than another?
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Aren't film recorders RGB devices? Do you still have access to the
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pre-CMYK RGB files? That is, I've read that some FRs are wide gamut devices
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... it would seem a shame to have endured an intermediate CMYK conversion(?)
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... otherwise, it doesn't seem to make much difference(?)
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cheerios ... shAf :o)
Film recorders devices can't be 'wider' than the physical film media onto
they're imaging, can they? So, this is a crazy idea but I was wondering
whether an 'inverted' Ektachrome scanner profile would do? Is that what you
were leading to, the other day, Erik, when you were asking about why scanner
spaces could not be chosen as Destination in Photoshop?
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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