Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- Subject: Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:10:08 -0600
- Thread-topic: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
On 4/18/08 4:54 PM, "email@hidden" wrote:
> The other day Steve Rankin pokes his head over my cube and askes me if we
> should put a preference in to set the gamma to 1.8 in the CM software. Before
> ripping into him, I politely asked him why, if we were trying to make this
> easy for an end user, should we complicate it, by introducing a gross
> distortion into most standard non color managed workflows. He pointed out
> that a magizine review was going to give us "one star" for not complying with
> the Mac OS "requirement" of 1.8 . The reviewer pointed out that if a user
> calibrated his screen to a gamma of 2.2 the image from the DVD player on the
> Mac would appear incorrect because it did the gamma conversion . I did a
> little checking and sure enough, it's true. They also do this in all their
> motion applications.
Steve needs a good bitch slapping from me (and people like Chris Murphy...
Chris, if you're not too busy moving, let's gang up on these guys).
Steve apparently is a MARKETING product manager right? Otherwise who gives a
rat's ass about what a reviewer says over what the customer says? In this
day and age, aiming a product like ColorMunki to a new group who doesn't
know Gamma from a banana, why on earth do we (X-Rite) need to go down this
path? And there's no reason anyone on a Mac or any other OS should stick to
this so called imagery "requirement" of a "Gamma" of 1.8 (quotes used with
emphasis). So Steve is saying its more important to get that good review,
disregard educating the reviewer and making the product complex for the core
audience? And Marc got fired? There is nothing fair in this scenario.
And so the DVD player isn't color managed, like most web browsers, this is
the fault of X-Rite not putting in a big and unnecessary hurt me button in
the application? Let me have a nice dinner, read what Steve said so I can
now throw up on my keyboard.
You need more help ripping into Steve, you let me know where and when.
> Do you honestly believe that a marketing executive is going to accept a one
> out five star review in a Mac magazine, simply because it might be in the best
> interests of the market we are trying to address with the product? If you
> understand that logic, you understand why colormanagement is in the state it
> is today.
I would hope so, as much as I'd hope we could have a presidential debate
that didn't take 50 minutes of asking stupid questions about flag pins and
baking cookies. And really, do you think that between the option of making a
really easy intuitive product or getting a few less stars in a review,
assuming that would happen is justification for this?
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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