I am afraid you will never get any solid answer as there are supporters for all 3 colour spaces. Each group has their reasons why one was better. Most books will tell you to use AdobeRGB, some suggest wider space must be better, and some went back to plain old sRGB after some backyard experiment. I personally use sRGB for the fact that it works best with local labs and for the web. I always forgot the conversion between spaces and eventually gave up. Just too much hassle.
Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boros Attila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006 4:06 Subject: Understanding ProPhoto RGB - or not > Hello PDML, > > I came across this article: > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml which > is about color management. The author states that current DSLR cameras > can produce colors that don't fit into the AdobeRGB color space. This > is based on some ICC profiles used by Capture One and presuming that: > "Camera Raw within Photoshop does the same thing, except that it does > so behind the scenes." > > His conclusion: > "What does this mean? Simply, that if you are using the Adobe RGB > colour space with a Canon 20D, for example, (and this applies to > virtually every other DSLR on the market), you are not getting a lot > of the deep saturated colours that the camera's sensor is capable of > capturing." > > While I'm still learning color management, I have some doubts about > this. AFAIK two color spaces are commonly supported in digital > camreas: sRGB and AdobeRGB. If I set a camera to XY color space, I > would not expect to get colors which are outside of that color space. > Maybe with some very wild image manipulations one could manage to hit > the limits of AdobeRGB, but I doubt that such an image would print > well. So does this article have any valid points? > > > -- > Attila -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
