Re: SOS: profiling a Nikon
Re: SOS: profiling a Nikon
- Subject: Re: SOS: profiling a Nikon
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:14:28 -0600
- Thread-topic: SOS: profiling a Nikon
Title: Re: SOS: profiling a Nikon
On 9/30/05 8:44 PM, "eugene appert" wrote:
I have always been unclear and nervous about input devises, either scanners or cameras, which “guide” the user through a series of destination space options. I have recently begun working with a Nikon D100 and D70 and wondered, for example, why on earth would Nikon offer three mandatory “input” profiles labelled as workspaces?
They are giving you three different renderings. The encodings (in this case into sRGB) is the same. Think of it like having three different film emulsions to use. You can photograph a scene with the same camera and lens and use three different film stocks. You’ll get three different renderings. It is kind of goofy how nearly all the manufacturers do this only with matrix settings for sRGB and not Adobe RGB (1998).
I say Mandatory because there doesn’t appear to be a way to use a D100 or D70 without assigning one of these three “modes”.
Shot RAW. You control both the rendering via the converter and the encoding.
The thing that mystifies me the most is that I didn’t think you could profile raw format, after all, raw format hardly even knows its a picture, so where and when is this conversion taking place?
The RAW file is basically a Grayscale file, there’s not true color yet.
This PDF might be helpful:
http://www.color.org/ICC_white_paper_20_Digital_photography_color_management_basics.pdf
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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