Andrew
Rodney Wrote:
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Shot
RAW. You control both the rendering via the converter and the encoding.
Thank
you for your response and the accompanying reference. In fact I am shooting RAW,
its the only way to get 16 bits/channel with these two cameras, otherwise I
would much prefer to shoot TIF and assign my own custom profile.
This
notion of rendering is only one more nail in the cross for those of us trying
to swim straight in a sea of ever increasing automation, cryptic algorithms and
subprograms. To continue the
analogy given in the text you referred me to, if I were shooting film I would be
using Kodak EPN, no boosting, saturating or warming, a neutral, impartial repro
film.
So
as not to get caught up in language, and to make sure that I am understanding
correctly I will include the rendering you speak of in the larger set of RAW
conversion settings, and place it with all other factors affecting the placement
of file data as it moves from linear raw to a gamma encoded profiled file
format. I could remove the effect
of this rendering if I took charge of the RAW conversion myself via Nikon
Capture however it sounds as though Nikon Capture/Editor is a RAW converter much
like Camera Raw, storing and assigning a default generic profile and then taking
charge of an unavoidable conversion to a pre-selected RGB workspace, which means
I would have to surrender the use of custom profiles.
Is there no way to convert an NEF to TIF without converting the file data
to yield the colours of an independent RGB workspace? If the answer is no, I cannot imagine
how NEF format (at least shot with a D100 or D70) can be compatible with custom
camera profiles.
Thanks
for your help
Eugene