[argyllcms] Re: Tag for color space

From: Frédéric Mantegazza <frederic.mantegazza@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:03:46 +0100

On jeudi 10 avril 2008, Martin Ling wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:12:46PM +0100, Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:

> > I'm wondering something: is the Exif.Photo.colorSpace tage normalized?
> > For example, with my EOS 20D, it is set to 'sRGB' when I use the sRGB
> > color space on the camera, and set to 'uncalibrated' when I set color
> > space to AdobeRGB :o/
>
> I found it quoted that:
>
> "The specification for EXIF 2.21 (JEITA CP3451-1, section 4.6.5-B)
> states that 'if a color space other than sRGB is used, Uncalibrated
> (=FFFF.H) is set.'"
>
> Hence only 1 (sRGB) and 65535 (Uncalibrated) are standardised.
>
> However it seems some sources have started using 2 for AdobeRGB and this
> is recognised as such by ExifTool and perhaps other software.

Good ! I've juste checked with exiv2, and it supports this value too :o)

Thanks,

-- 
   Frédéric

   http://www.gbiloba.org

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[argyllcms] Tag for color space
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