Hahahahaa this is so right, too! I wonder though what Leicaman does to get his gear... Cheers Ecke
2009/11/10 Bob W <p...@web-options.com>: > 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. > -- 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.
