>> OK so camera sensors are actually capable of producing colors outside
>> of AdobeRGB. But when the cameras write the data in RAW files on the
>> cards, all this gets clipped/compressed/transformed (insert correct
>> term here) to AdobeRGB.
>
> No it doesn't.
> It doesn't get converted to *any* other colorspace until you do RAW
> conversion.
>
What about the K10D's 22-bit -> 1[246]-bit(?) lossy conversion to
RAW? Somewhere in the signal chain the camera's processor decided to
throw something away.
-Cory
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