[Digikam-users] ICC file for Ricoh GXR

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

That's very clearly explained, thank you.
As an 'artistic' photographer, I had never seen to point to investigate
this further. My guess is this kind of input profile will mainly be useful
for photographers that want/need a totally accurate rendering of the 'real'
colours; those specialized in fine arts, and may be a few other domains I
don't think about at the moment.

Marie-Noëlle

2012/7/20 Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>

> On 20/07/12 17:38, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>
>> each profile is used by the corresponding
>> device to 'interpret' the image and render it faithfully;
>>
>
> A camera profile is an input profile whereas a monitor profile is an
> output profile. So a camera profile is used to adjust the raw data to allow
> for the colour response of the lens and sensor. This means that in the
> memory of the computer you have an accurate representation of what was
> seen. In order to see that accurate representation you need a monitor
> profile and calibrated monitor. A camera profile is not for calibrating the
> display on the camera LCD, that would be utterly pointless.
> So you see the use of tethering or not is completely irrelevant to the
> need to use a camera profile or not. Tethering is only about transferring
> the data directly to a computer or storing it on the camera memory card.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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