[opendtv] Re: RGB mania

  • From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:44:53 -0000

Yes Craig, that's what I've been trying to do for HDTV since 1986.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: RGB mania

> I was pleased to see Alan and Jeroen talking about gamuts that extend
> not only the range of legal color values, but the coding of luminance
> as well. Alan wrote:
>
> "The emphasis should now be on investigating CIELuv or CIELab or something
> similar, because they allow seperate treatment of true luminance and
colour,
> and that's where all the benefits lie. "
>
> Exactly. We want to preserve EVERYTHING that the camera sees, and
> make decisions about what to throw away in post, during color
> correction. We want the "printing" latitude we enjoy today with film
> negative, where we have enough information to bring out details in
> the blacks and the whites. And we need to support colors that may not
> exist in nature, because they exist inside the heads of graphic
> designers, who have become accustomed to the full gamut of colors you
> can work with in 24bit RGB colorspace.
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
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