I think Iliah has another script which will allow a monochrome camera Like the Leica to provide the "look" of a certain obsolete color transparency process that came in a yellow box. However due to some IP issues, he is unwilling to share this other script with us. Edmund On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Bernhard Bablok <bablokb@xxxxxx> wrote: > Am Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:57:52 +1000 > schrieb Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Bernhard Bablok wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > is the following procedure possible with the use of argyll-tools? > > > > > > * print a target (e.g. with targen) > > > * create a cht-file for the target > > > * take an image with camera A > > > * create the reference-file from the image from camera A > > > * take a second image with camera B > > > * create a profile using the reference-file created with camera A > > > > > > > > > > I know this is not really the catholic way, but I want to make the > > > colors of camera B look like the colors of camera A. BTW: "camera A" > > > could also be a film-camera+film-scanner (even using BW-film). > > > > Hi, > > I'm not sure why you want to deviate from a normal > > device space transformation. Simply profile camera A and profile > > camera B, and then create an RGB to RGB space transform from > > camera B to camera A device space. The transform can be on the fly > > using a CMM/cctiff or application, or using a device link (collink). > > > > ie. to be explicit, you want to emulate this: > > > > Scene CIE -> camera A processing -> RGB of camera A > > -------------- = camera A B2A ------------------ > > > > with this: > > > > Scene CIE -> camera B processing -> RGB of camera B > > -------------- = camera B B2A ------------------ > > > > So overall you want this: > > > > Scene CIE -> camera B processing -> RGB of camera B > > -------------- = camera B B2A ------------------ > > -> inverse camera B processing -> Scene CIE > > -------------- = camera B A2B ------------------ > > -> camera A processing -> RGB of camera A > > -------------- = camera A B2A ------------------ > > > > and camera B A2B + camera A B2A is a normal device link. > > (This ignores any issues with gamut, white point etc.) > > > > Graeme Gill. > > > > Hi, > > would that also work if camera A is a black-and-white film (+scanner)? > IMHO, normal profiling for A will always fail, since there are no > color-values in the measurement. > > I'm not through with testing, but taking > the script from Iliah I might be able to make the results of camera B to > mimic the results of the black-and-white film. > > Bernhard > >