On 25 Mar 2005 at 10:31, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > Right...I'm not really keen on "integrated" profiles, as they may > or may not represent what's truly in the camera. I suspect that in at > least the high-end ones they've either obtained the data from Pentax, or > shot an IT8 target themselves.
I've executed colour integrity and repro tests (from capture to print) and I trust the integrated *ist D profiles (for daylight and manual WB) and I trust the ability of the PC CS RAW convertor to interpret the cameras WB information. > Gimp's almost unbelievable apathy towards high bit depth is truly > staggering. I've tried Cinepaint, but I've had bad luck with its > stability, and it's based on a fairly old version of the Gimp. Basically, I > won't use Gimp for anything, unless it started out as an 8-bit file when I got > it. Wow I didn't realize the GIMP only allowed 8 bit file handling, that must be a joy to work with. > That might be useful. Aside from the Bayer interpolation, you > could use dcraw to get out a linear TIFF file. We'll see if they ever > answer my email first. Fair enough, assuming it can generate a 16 bit file it might be worth while to do. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
