[argyllcms] Re: Calculating film LUTs for a film recorder

  • From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:16:57 +1000

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Sounds like that was probably one of the AGFA / Matrix film recorders.

Yes, that was the unit :-)

> I've actually got a Spyder2Print calibrator, though as I understand it
> that isn't supported by Argyll :(

Sorry, it's a lot of work to RE something like that, since it's
quite different to other spectrometers.

> It's a linearisation LUT. From what I can tell, it's intended to counter
> the effects of the film's characteristic curve (H-D, or
> "Hurter-Driffield" curve). Although as you say, matching to sRGB may be
> easier and more productive.

printcal wouldn't be too hard to modify to target a particular curve shape.

Graeme Gill.

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