Thanks, got it, good point.
Regards, Alex Z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of michael shaffer Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Profiles Alex writes ... > If I get your point correctly, you claim that monitors cannot > display wider gamut then ordinary sRGB regardless of > particular display qualities, which mean, there is no point to > scan and save in Adobe 98 RGB which is wider and thus > resulting in larger files. > ... I remember Adobe's Chris Cox commenting on sRGB being represenative of "cheap" monitors. More appropriately, I believe the people who created sRGB space thought it was representative of "most" monitors. Although print spaces shouldn't be considered to have a "larger" gamut, some of their color capabilities (cyan-green-yellow) are considered outside typical monitor spaces. Therefore, most consider sRGB to have too small a gamut for anything other than wwweb presentation. > What about scanning for archive ? ... Why convert your archived scan to anything? Leave it the way it is, and convert it when you're ready to use it again. Once you convert to a smaller gamut, you can never get it back (short of hitting 'ctrl-z') cheerios ... shAf :o) Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland www.micro-investigations.com (in progress) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
