Scanner Profile "too good"?
Scanner Profile "too good"?
- Subject: Scanner Profile "too good"?
- From: Nick Wheeler <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:58:51 -0500
Doug:
Many of the spaces you mention contain all the colors "reproduced" by
many output devices or printers, I've never heard it said they contain
all the colors "produced" by input devices like cameras and scanners.
If you have seen it told that way you should discount the source.
So this is not a case of pilot error necessarily, but it may be a case
of pilot conceptual error. What really matters at the end of the day is
how you want these colors to be observed. This ultimate goal will
determine what manner of digital postproduction workflow you will
assemble, should you choose to go that route.
So the fact that input colors may be clipped when converted to a
workingspace is of no importance if the ultimate viewing color space
was going to clip those colors anyway. For instance your monitor is
already "clipping" a lot of those colors.
By the way it is important to think in terms of compression rather than
clipping. You must develop ways to compress the range of tones in any
form of input to become an ultimately satisfying output. Conventional
or repro Film and paper used to do a lot of this work "behind the
scenes" in a very satisfying and natural way. Digital capture, editing
and output devices are not nearly so satisfying in the way they deal
with wide dynamic range, and instead of naturally rolling off in their
response to dynamic excess, are more prone to simply chopping it off.
Coping with the chopping will thus become a major preoccupation!
All the best,
Nick Wheeler
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