[Radiance-general] macbethcal error

Rob Guglielmetti rpg at rumblestrip.org
Mon Feb 6 06:07:57 CET 2006


Greg Ward wrote:

> My best advice is to shoot in RAW mode if you want precise color.   
> There is much less to go wrong, as dcraw.c and Photoshop use a simple  
> color matrix transform to go from the sensor space to sRGB, and  
> produce fairly consistent colors in my tests.  I know I said a lot of  
> disparaging things about RAW, and I still don't care for it as a  
> general concept, but unfortunately the camera manufacturers don't  
> provide any other reasonable path for accurate color at the moment.   

But it's an awesome argument for me to get a new camera, since mine 
doesn't do RAW.  =8-)

Thanks for the feedback, Greg.



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