Don't overthink the Read's 'colorspace' conversion - it can only do a 1D lut 
applied to RGB equally.  It's not a colorspace conversion per-se, only a gamma 
response conversion.

-jonathan


On Dec 31, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Randy Little <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok I am calibrating a Camera and light meter.  shooting a grey card (
> a good one that I know is 18%)   I take this file red it into anything
> that reads R3d. and in every case but nuke grey is .18xxxxxxx in float
> and 127.xxxxxxx or 128.xxxxxx in 8 bit.   huh.    in nuke its .21% ok
> weird.  Make file in photoshop in sRGB 2.1 make middle grey 50% (cause
> its gamma corrected sRGB)  Take that tiff file into Nuke .21 AGAIN.
> WHAT?  ok set read node to RAW.  MORE WHAT.  It reads at .5 as I would
> expect.  ok I studied color a little.   This sounds like color space
> conversion matrix problem.  Yup if you use LAB 50% then all is great.
> But None of my files are LAB and in RGB they are fine.  So it seems
> nuke conversion going through LAB remapping RGB 50% to LAB 50% and
> then not accounting for that.    But also if I use a Gamma node set to
> .402  I can get in a gradient .18 to be exactly the middle of the
> gradient as well.  This in tern doesn't distribute the values linearly
> threw the gradient either at 10% translation I have only 7%
> illumination change from dmax and from dmin 20% translation results in
> 10% change.  As expected when using a gamma node on a raw sRGB since
> srgb is a power curve.  Just nukes Power curve seems a bit off.
> Is there a reason for this?
> 
> 
> Randy S. Little
> http://www.rslittle.com
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