Fw: Best color space for film recorders?
Fw: Best color space for film recorders?
- Subject: Fw: Best color space for film recorders?
- From: "john c." <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:24:31 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "john c." <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Best color space for film recorders?
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It all depends on which film recorder it's going to and how it's
calibrated
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and managed by the shop who's using it. If you were sending it to my lab,
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I'd prefer that you send the CMYK files with some knowledge of the profile
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to assign to them, or at least a proof to show us what the file is
supposed
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to look like. Then we'd do the conversion to the appropriate profile for
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whichever film recorder we'd be using for your job. Since all of our film
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recorder output gets profiled first in-house, you couldn't convert it for
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the final output anyway. We use DonRGB for retouching and color
correction,
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then we convert to the individual output device and film profile.
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That's the long answer. The short one might be to convert it to AdobeRGB,
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embed the profile, and let the lab worry about it from there.
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john castronovo
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tech photo & imaging
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----- Original Message -----
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From: <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:52 PM
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Subject: Best color space for film recorders?
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> I'm faced with the task of prepping some files for output on a film
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> recorder. The existing files are CMYK and I was wondering if there was
an
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> ideal space to convert them to for this purpose. Obviously a wide space
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> won't invent colors that aren't there, but is one more appropriate than
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> another?
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> Eric G Bullock
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> Assistant Imaging Manager
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> Filene's / Kaufmann's Advertising
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> 426 Washington Street
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> 8th Floor - Imaging Dept.
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> Boston, MA 02108
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> 617.357.2187
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