[argyllcms] Re: How can I tell if I'm using my profile? (and other questions)

If it is foreseeable that most if not all images you view are actually sRGB (and we assume that sRGB images indeed should be viewed with a sRGB gamma, and not just encoded with it but viewed on say a gamma 2.x monitor), then I agree it is surely a good idea to use that as tone curve when calibrating.
Here you seem to be raising the point that I was really asking about, which is: how should sRGB tagged images be viewed. The images from my camera, which I presume are sRGB tagged, looked a bit washed out when I viewed them with a sRGB calibration as compared to the gamma=2.4 calibration.
This is because the image viewing app did not do a proper colormanagement, so the different gammas were not accounted for.
But if sRGB images are supposed to be viewed on a gamma=2.4 display and I have color management then won't I be in trouble? The color management would correct for the gamma and give me the sRGB result.
Just for the sake of completeness: Regardless of what gamma you end up calibrating your monitor to, and assumed that sRGB images should be viewed with a gamma of (say) 2.4 instead of with sRGB curve, then in a colormanaged workflow you'd actually have to discard the embedded sRGB profile from the image, and embed a profile with the same primaries but a gamma of 2.4 (I hope this is not too confusing, I myself start to get a bit dizzy at the moment ;)) 

Regards,

Florian

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