Boros Attila wrote: >I came across this article: >http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml <snip> >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.
The color space settings on your camera only affect JPEG capture. Reichmann is talking about shooting RAW, in which case you're getting the (hardware-dependent) color space of the camera's sensor (and you select final color space during RAW conversion). What the article is saying is that the color gamut of many CCD/ and CMOS sensors is broader than that of the Adobe RGB color space, so you should shoot RAW and choose ProPhoto RGB when you perform conversion. You can then convert to smaller color spaces as appropriate for specific output applications - sRGB for web display, for example. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
