Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- Subject: Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- From: "Mark Segal" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:47:12 -0400
Edmund,
Your note may well explain why Adobe are doing as they are doing; however, I wasn't suggesting anyone should tell Adobe what's better than their current solution - only that they should translate and evaluate Uli's complete set of material and publish an article explaining their findings and their p.o.v. about it. Sure the horse has bolted insofar as they are doing what they are doing, but companies do redirect their horses when they see good reason or some commercial advantage to do so; if a hard-working member of the imaging community has come up with something worth investigating, well, maybe they should check it out. And it could settle what is by now not a new debate.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: edmund ronald
To: Mark Segal
Cc: Andrew Rodney ; Terence Wyse ; 'colorsync-users?lists.apple.com' List
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
I think the horse has bolted. At the outset, Adobe had the choice
between an (initially) proprietary extension of the ICC methodology or
using an entirely new Raw model of their own. Each of these had
technical advantages, I guess. They chose an entirely new description,
probably because the original DNG 2-matrix model is elegant, easy to
code and understand. Now they've chosen to extend it rather than move
sideways into the ICC world.
So there's no point in telling Adobe that ICC-conformant models are
intrinsically better - they aren't. It's just that they allow a large
pool of third-party contributors, who cater to the whims of market
niches.
Standardisation has nice sides; but technical excellence has nothing
to do with standards conformance.
Expect DNG to get more baroque year by year :)
Edmund
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