[argyllcms] Re: Number of patches - well behaved printer?
- From: Iliah Borg <ib@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:48:52 -0500
On Feb 26, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Qcore wrote:
> My thoughts are that profiling in negative scanning workflows is doing little
> more than providing a rough guide for the interpretative edits which are
> always required.
>
> A scanner cannot get RGB values from negative that have any dependable
> relationship with the colorimetry of the original scene. That's the whole
> point of using negative -- massive exposure range recorded using minimal
> density range.
>
> And given that the scanned values don't correspond to the colorimetry of the
> final print either, I can't see profiling playing anything other than a very
> minor part in the image processing.
>
> --
> Martin Orpen
> Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
Was the above from your previous e-mail?
>> I'd be happy to do that if you, or anybody else says that this process is
>> working for them on anything other than the roll of negative with the
>> ColorChecker in it!
--
Iliah Borg
ib@xxxxxxxxxxx
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