[argyllcms] Re: Fwd: Simple how-to on camera profiling

  • From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:17:03 +0100

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Karljohan Lundin Palmerius
<karljohan.palmerius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> With low patch count targets I'd stick with matrix only profiles...
>>>
>>> I tried -aS and -ag as suggested by Nikolay before, but got poor
>>> results with -aS, so in the how-to I suggest -ag which is
>>> gamma+matrix. I did have some trouble also with -ag at the time I
>>> decided to not use -aS so the problem with -aS could have been caused
>>> by some other problem in the pipeline.
>>
>> Again, Argyll 1.1.1 has a matrix only mode (-a m) which is very cool.
>>
>> Adding some ooomph to your images should not be the job of the
>> profile, UFRaw has basecurves for that.
>
> Yes, of course, but you need the profile to get a good baseline to add
> the "ooomph" to :-)  I don't have version 1.1.1 at the moment so I
> can't try it but I just assume that the gamma in the gamma+matrix is
> used to compensate for the most basic non-linearities in the camera.

Well, Argyll is free, no reason not to update :)

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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