KR has quite a good sense of humour and he's right about quite few things although he doesn't always write well enough for his message to be clear. If you interpret his article as saying you don't need to know about colour management, I think he's basically correct. From camera to computer to printer / screen you don't need to do any manual colour management if everything uses profiles. You don't even need to calibrate your monitor if you trust the profiles.
Here's an example of his humour: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/wife.htm Bob > That's a gratuitous troll from KR, looks like it was designed > specifically to provoke DPreview forumites. He's actually > using a nearly fully colour managed workflow since he > profiles his monitor and sends out sRGB JPEG's to print(which > is what the printers want most of the time). And of course > with his notoriously lackadasial approach to colour, he > doesn't really need ICM (C'Mon, the guy likes Velvia for > shooting portraits of Caucasians) > > > -Adam. > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Doug Franklin > <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/color-management/is-for-wimps.htm > > > > Now he claims to have "invented the world's first dedicated digital > > color-space conversion chip back in 1990". > > > > He further claims that the vast majority of the time "You > don't need > > [color profiles and color spaces]" and that he "never uses them." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
