Thank you for this contribution, Walker. A nice break from the preening & shouting …er, discussion I mean. I’ll try not to resent your criminal behavior in buttering your toast upside down. ;-) John P.S. Toast - what a perfect device for this list! Were you remembering Steve Upton’s famous toast metaphor for the problem of color reproduction?
On Apr 17, 2018, at 6:03 AM, colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com wrote:
Message: 8 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:02:07 -0400 From: "forums@walkerblackwell.com <mailto:forums@walkerblackwell.com>" <forums@walkerblackwell.com <mailto:forums@walkerblackwell.com>> To: ColorSync <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com <mailto:colorsync-users@lists.apple.com>> Subject: Re: Epson canned profiles Message-ID: <8A5F94BA-BD9B-4453-B00A-9C9A7A74F7EF@walkerblackwell.com <mailto:8A5F94BA-BD9B-4453-B00A-9C9A7A74F7EF@walkerblackwell.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Whenever I see flamewars like this on ColorSync forum I’m tempted to post this little cartoon: theoatmeal.com/comics/believe <http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe>
Hopefully it calms people down a little.
For some people (and their business) minuscule dEs are a real problem. For other people and their business it’s no problem at all. It’s just a matter of what world one inhabits. If you inhabit the "dE differences of .85 at the 6ish L value level make no difference”-world then it does not discount all the people who that would make a huge difference to. Same goes in reverse. Because I butter my toast upside down doesn’t make people who butter their toast right-side up wrong.
This forum is generally comprised of many people who have dedicated a very long time to perfecting their world and defining the world of color management and control. I would say a lot of the people who post on this forum are people from the “minuscule dEs are bad” mindset. I include myself in that. But it’s important to remember that people have different contexts.
My personal experience is this: After I made my first good custom profile for Epson I never went back to canned profiles. It changed my context and refined/raised my expectations. But before that first custom profile, I really was just fine with the canned because my frame of reference was just different before.
All the best, Walker