Re: ICC Profile location for PS RAW
Re: ICC Profile location for PS RAW
- Subject: Re: ICC Profile location for PS RAW
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:17:43 -0700
on 11/4/03 8:00 AM, Bertho Boman wrote:
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Why not keep everyone happy?
Why not? Cause it's not necessary and would produce far more harm than good.
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Cars are sold with automatic and manual transmission so why can't PS?
Not all cars are. If you want a sports car that doesn't have an auto, you
need a different product. ACR isn't the only raw converter around so if you
think building custom profiles is that important, you'll have to find
another converter. I don't see any reason to put both an Automatic and stick
in ACR. Now tiptronic might be interesting!
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An other issue that I have not seen brought up is that a photographer
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with several cameras can normalize them to at least make up for sensor to
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sensor difference and then the only variable will be the ambient
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lighting. Why not remove at least some of the variables?
For an awful lot of photographers shooting on location or in the field with
true field cameras, you'll NEVER get them to take the time, energy and
effort to shoot a target, take a spectra reading then go back and build a
profile and apply it. Not when you've got to shoot 8 or 10 setups in a day
with different lighting and all the chaos on set. It's difficult just to get
a frame of a gray card or Macbeth for each setup in some shooting
situations. For studio, sure.
All this talk of camera profiling seems to be a solution in search of a
problem. I work with a LOT of photographers and I don't hear them all
screaming for custom profiles for their field cameras. The big hurt me issue
now is workflow (editing and processing gig's of images pre day). Offer a
solution to that and we can talk about the little issues like getting a 5%
better image with nothing more than a profile. Right now, color isn't the
problem I hear photographers screaming about (unless someone selling a
profile package puts a very big bug in their ear).
Sorry but I just don't hear all the people using Canon/Nikon/Fuji etc
screaming that the color they get stinks and they need a profile. I suspect
a huge amount are not even shooting RAW files.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.imagingrevue.com/
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