Apart from the fact that our posts apparently crossed each others paths in
transmission and reception, I really have little further to offer. As far as
I know, and you have not contradicted it, there is only one sRGB standard or
versions, although there may be multiple implementations, which can loosely
be considered versions. However, if they are considered versions, then
there are a great many versions of sRGB and - in practice - no sRGB
standard.
As for the camera manufacturer programing in color gamut adjustments and
corrections which are linked to different camera setting that use sRGB as
its color space, this is not only a possibility but a reality since they are
already doing it in both their digital cameras and in their film cameras
where they have landscape, portrait, night photography, etc. settings the
established pre-programmed default settings which they think are the ones
that will satisfy most users for those subjects as well as a manual and
non-programmed automatic setting. In the case of Nikon, I suspect that they
consider the Adobe RGB 1998 to be professional color space for serious
amatures and professionals as contrasted to the the two sRGB settings.
Although it was not mentioned, I think Nikon also has a setting for RAW
ouput (I forget what they call their raw data format) in their higher end
digital cameras, where one can assign a color space and make ones
adjustments in a third party image editing program like Photoshop..
-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Ellis Vener
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:02 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Are there multiple versions of SRGB?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:10 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, there is only one version of sRGB.
As I pointed out in a posting yesterday, the different manufacturers
implement colorspace s slightly differently than the standard. For
example: Fuji says that the Frontier printers are sRGB machines but
several people have looked at that the Frontiers printers produce and
the actual gamut produced is wider than the sRGB standard says it
should be.
If the camera is doing the basic color processing, then yes of course
Nikon or Canon or Minolta or Fuji or kodak or Imacon or Leaf, etc. can
program in an option that tells the camera to bias the color gamut to
what they think will be a "more pleasing" rendition of color for skin
tones or landscapes. Theoretically It would be possible to bias the
color to look like any color bias you wanted: Velvia, Astia 100F,
Provia 100, Provia 100F, Kodak EPN, E100G, E100GX, Kodak Portra 160VC,
Agfa whatever, etc. of course that means the color wouldn't be
accurate -- for that you have a wide colorspace and NEF and RAW -- but
it could be done. Maybe a smart manufacturer will offer this as an
firmware kit to be sold as an option for those who want such a thing.
Best Regards,
Ellis Vener
Atlanta, GA
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