[Digikam-users] Re: Color Profile Question

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 schrieb davidvj:
> DK Ver 1.7.0 Ubuntu 10.10
> 
> I am using a Canon D50 which is recognized by the system but I am
> unable to find a suitable profile for the camera to put into the
> configuration settings under the 'Color Management > Profiles >
> Camera and Scanner' entry.

Some generic comments to profiling: Either calibrate/profile your 
camera the right way (with special hardware like IT8 targets) or use 
the build in of DK (or ufraw or darktable or ...) profile. And camera 
profiles are without any use, if you don't use a calibrated and 
profiled monitor. And the next step is to profile the light-lens-
camera situation as different lenses shows different "colour" (some 
are a little bluish some others are a little orange).

There is almost no advantage in using a default profile from Canon or 
someone else. For my EOS 30D the canon profile is worse than the 
default and generic one (at least with ufraw as I currently don't use 
digikam for developing raw files).

In most situations there is no need to bother with camera icc profiles 
unless you need colour accuracy, but then you have to generate 
profiles for every shooting by your own.

Martin

> 
> My list of profiles do contain a standard sRGB.icc profile but that
> is not showing on the presented drop-down-list.
> 
> How do I correct the problem? Help would be appreciated.