Anyone care to answer my previous questions?
Perhaps the questions can be translated as:
* Is it correct to state that a color space with accompanying limits
to its gamut will have only a finite number of colors? Why? Or is this
finiteness applicable for the number of colors that the current types of
image files can have when they are in a specific color space?
* Will a smaller gamut color space allow finer granularity to code
colors in its gamut than what a larger gamut color space would allow for the
same range of colors (i.e. those same colors that fall in the smaller gamut
color space) or are image files not coded in such way?
Thank you in advance,
Jerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oostrom, Jerry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:33 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Rodney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:01 PM
> > To: Film Scanners; Bob Shomler
> > Subject: Re: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners
> >
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> > Taking a file in sRGB and converting it to Adobe RGB isn't going to
> expand
> > the gamut of the file. It's fixed after becoming sRGB. You can't
> increase
> > the color gamut simply by converting into a space that can hold a larger
> > number of colors.
> >
> [Oostrom, Jerry] I wonder about this, are there spaces that can
> hold a larger number of colors? If I see it as a 48bit image file I assume
> the number of different colors to increase with a factor 2^24 in
> comparison
> to a 24bit image file. Or is the number of bits only one of the upper
> limits
> to the number of colors in a color space and will a color space never hold
> more than say a number X of colors?
>
> [snip also some of the q's]
