[Digikam-users] problems with ICC profiles

[Tommaso Schiavinotto]

I've a Dynax 5D as well, but once I've read that a solution could to 
install the Light Edition of CaptureOne
(http://www.phaseone.com/), they have several profiles....

Otherwise here I've found they sell it for 30$:
http://www.etcetera.cc/pub/index.php/article/articleview/5/1/3/

--Tommaso
Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have two, a practical and a theoretical, problems with ICC profiles for 
> digiKam 0.9.0:
> ---
> practical:
>
> I can't find any profile that works with the CR2-files from my Canon 20D. I've 
> downloaded what I found, tried all combinations... the picture is always too 
> dark. The Camera is set up to use sRGB.
>
> in UFraw I use it's built-in sRGB for in- and output. That works ok. But 
> digiKam wouldn't accept any of the sRGB-profiles I found as a camera profile 
> (it doesn't show them in the setup box of camera/input profile, they appear 
> only in workspace/monitor setup box)
>
> Now, what can I do? 
> - Is there a possibility to create a profile myself somehow - without making a 
> degree as doctor-colour-space :-))
>
> - Are there some "standard"-profiles that give acceptable results somewhere?
>
> - and: it's acceptable for professionals if digiKam requires them to learn 
> some color management stuff (willy-nilly I'll have to go into this when I 
> find the time), but are there any thoughts about what the "common home user" 
> can do, who just wants to plug in his/her camera and have the photos in nice 
> colours without getting involved in color management but nevertheless uses 
> raw files?
>
> ---
> and the theoretical question:
>
> those ICC profiles I've seen are copyrighted. Are there any thoughts what 
> happens, when one uses a profiled image-file on the web, in a photo data 
> base, or delivered to a picture agency, and the copyright-holder doesn't like 
> that? This possibly applies to photoshop as well, but probably they'll pay 
> the royalties to the copyright-holders, and they are not open-source... I'm 
> just thinking about the dvd css problems with linux... Has this already been 
> discussed or is this question obsolete anyway?
>
> regards
>
> Daniel
>
>