Hello.
I would like to get feedback on a split thatÂ’s
occurring in our department with respect to the relevance of camera input
profiles. Most of the faculty were brought up to speed in digital technologies
about six or seven years ago. Six years ago camera input profiles were prevalent
for studio work, especially reproduction, and corresponded to a simple work flow
in which scene colours were first defined by a custom profile in specific
lighting, polarisation etc and then converted to a large RGB space, mostly
Prophoto. However, six years ago cameras produced untagged tif files from a RAW
capture.
Here is the divide; one camp still believes in
input camera profiles for studio and repro work, even if that means creating an
input profile using file data that has already undergone a conversion to an RGB
space via a generic input profile. The other camp is moving away from input
camera profiles and towards using raw converter calibration settings instead.
I am aware that there are raw converters like
Bibble, that still allow us to create untagged tiffs from raw capture, but I
suspect that this is not the general tendency among professional photographers.
So, here are my questions
1
How much
validity is there in creating a camera profile after a conversion to an RGB
workspace through a generic input profile?
2
Is anyone still
creating input camera profiles for studio or reproduction work?
Thanks for any input
Eugene
Appert