It was 5/11/03 2:17 pm, when Richard Kenward wrote:
>> However, aren't the Sony screens, and the Mit screens, capable of displaying
>> a wider gamut than the one covered by Adobe RGB?
>
> No, not in their entirety
>
>> If they weren't, then how
>> does one currently judge images in any of the wider color spaces, such as,
>> Lab, Ektaspace, Kodak ProPhotoRGB, etc?
>
> One cannot! I understand that is the reason for the Adobe desaturate
> monitor facility in the advanced tab under colour settings....bit of a
> fudge but the idea is to show colour relationships rather than accurate
> colour.
Richard
I think I fudged that one. What I meant to say was how does one judge images
in Adobe RGB, which is being recommended, if you cannot see all the colors?
Or to put in a language that I understand, if I can see only RG, how do I
make editing decisions about B? And if I can't, what's all the fuss about
editing in the wider Adobe RGB space instead of the smaller spaces, such as
sRGB? If you cannot see the colors covered by a "relatively" small space
such as Adobe RGB on the monitors that "most" photographers and studios
have, does that mean people have been editing blindly?
I've read "most" monitors will not display "some" of the colors of the wider
color gamut spaces, such as Wide Gamut RGB or the Pro version of Joe's
Ektaspace but I "assumed" you can see the colors covered by sRGB, Adobe RGB
and ColorMatch RGB on a "good" monitor, provided you set it up properly.
However, problems arose when you converted from those spaces to smaller
spaces, such as CMYK.
So, is it just terminology that we are talking about? I mean, we can see
more saturated colors in the wider spaces but not more actual colors?
The reason I thought the new Mit can display Adobe RGB out of the box is
because my Sony has an sRGB setting. It seemed "logical" to assume that,
just as some cameras and scanners can now tag Adobe RGB, the Mit would
display colors in Adobe RGB "out of the box."
Over to you and Bob...
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