Re: input camera profiles
Re: input camera profiles
- Subject: Re: input camera profiles
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:18:14 -0600
- Thread-topic: input camera profiles
On 5/31/06 1:06 PM, "Marco Ugolini" wrote:
> But
> wouldn't this way of dealing with RAW images forgo what seems to me the most
> attractive feature of the RAW format, namely the ability to make dramatic
> and non-destructive changes to tonality, color temperature, highlight and
> shadow detail, etc., all of which would be out of reach once the file is
> saved in a non-native format?
Not necessarily. Remember you're profiling the RAW converter behavior and
the RAW rendering (at least the rendering of a target you used to feed a
profile generation package).
> Also, provided that one is using a well-calibrated and -profiled display,
> shouldn't the sole concern at the initial stage be to create from the RAW
> data an image that looks right on screen, doesn't clip gamut and tonalities,
> and has been assigned a fittingly wide-gamut color profile?
Well that's how I do it. I've built profiles for lots of scanners, many ICC
aware and I've never seen a situation where all I had to do with do a
prescan and be done. It might get me closer to my initial goal but I usually
have some dials to turn to produce a rendering I want. And a scanner is a
vastly easier device to profile considering its behavior and the item you're
attempting to capture. Film has a fixed (maximum) gamut and dynamic range.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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