Re: Profiles and gamuts

Bart van der Wolf wrote:
> You should use the narrowest gamut that still accomodates your capture
> device's output.

I'm still knew at all this but am I correct in saying that "scanner
profile" is basically my capture device's (Nikon V) output? Is that the
pure data from the scanner? When I compare that to sRGB (with sRGB as
my working space) I see virtually no difference.

If all that is correct it would suggest that Nikon V output can be
fully expressed in sRGB color space. Is that correct?

> Depending on the material you scan, the Ektaspace profile may be a
> good choice. A better choice is a profile you specifically make for
> the scanner + film-dye family in question.

I'm not a pro so that's probably going too far for me. I have a wide
variety of materials from some very old B&W film to all sorts of
negatives (local film I bought in the country I was at) to mostly
Kodachrome slides but there are some no name slides there as well.

So basically it looks like I should just stick to sRGB.

Golden

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