Re: Digital Camera Image Color Profile?

[CDTobie@aol.com]

The rest of that thought...

A digicam has variable lighting conditions, and unless it is being used for 
fixed lighting studio shots does not have the luxury of being able to use a 
profile as simply as this. Cameras are now coming with variable white points, 
so you can set and balance the white point for shooting under fluorescent or 
incandescent, daylight or overcast skys etc... and  maybe this will give 
enough correction to allow a profile to be more useful than troublesome, at 
lest for more common lighting conditions, but it will be a month or two 
before I've tested this. I get a kick out of the web site that wants to print 
your digital photos for you, and proudly claims to have profles for all the 
popular digital cameras!

Currently non-studio digicam shots are brought into a wide enough space to 
not clip them, but narrow enough to trust the screen preview (that would 
basicly mean AdobeRGB) and corrected by eye. No conversion... and if possible 
avoid any device that lists its color space as sRGB, unless you are working 
on Windows with a non-color managed editing application.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@designcoop.com
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