On 13/12/06, Boros Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mark, > > Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 4:06:14 PM, you wrote: > > MR> The color space settings on your camera only affect JPEG capture. > MR> Reichmann is talking about shooting RAW, in which case you're getting > MR> the (hardware-dependent) color space of the camera's sensor (and you > MR> select final color space during RAW conversion). > Thanks Mark! I thought the color space setting affects both JPEG and > RAW, my bad. Now the article makes sense.
Sorry I should have been specific. The point is that you can always convert to a smaller colourspace and retain the essence of the colour spread of the image but once the colour data I compressed/clipped it can't be recovered. The problem when working with wide colourspaces is that generally it's preferable to work at higher bit depth in order to prevent posterization. It's pretty much generally accepted that files should remain in 16 bits/colour depth when working in ProPhoto RGB. Commercial print services generally require sRGB souce however the occasional one will provide custom profiles, in most cases sRGB will be adequte. But often printer profiles for newer colour ink-jet printers are wider than sRGB or Adobe RGB so choosing either of these colourspaces as your source or workspace or finally converting to either during save may reduce the potential quality of your prints. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
