I am new to digital imaging and I think this whole "profile" area
is a giant scam.
Okay it's a scam, now what
Having your monitor adjusted correctly is a no-brainer; however,
having to profile a printer to match a static image is ridiculous!
What happened to the idea of Standards?
The problem, most people don't have your ability to dial a monitor
in perfectly and need the benefit of a color desitometer to help
them out. The standards are out there, they're called ICC but the
vagarities of the manufacuring process will skew final output
sufficently to where profiling becomes a necessity, not a scam
luxury.
If the printer can't print a reasonable interpretation of the
image, then the printer is not worth buying - unfortunately for
most of us WE ARE STUCK WITH WHAT WE BOUGHT!
Most printers DO have the ability to give us a reasonable
interpretation. The problem is that there are a group of people
that demand better.
Now we are camera profiling.
Only if you want everything to match. It's not a requirement and
standards are never across the board for any product manufactured.
Tires, cosmetics, fertilizers, manufacturing plant requirement,
business practices, medical practices, art, poetry, jet design,
they all have varying design standards and there's differences as
to how the differences are applied to the differing situations.
Once again, if a camera has to have a profile attached for the
colors to make sense - then the camera manufacturer has succeeded
in selling a product that was released PREMATURELY!
The camera's color profile gives the camera a standard in which it
can interact with the printer. No profile, then they won't have a
common denominator in which to interact. There are different
standards for different situations, therefor, different profiles
are called for. One size doesn't fit all.
Thank goodness I do not have to go through all this mess with every
other product that is sold today!!
alan
Sure you do, you've just become accustom to the differences and
don't realize how accepting you've become.
Let's see.
How about VCR's are they all the same? Are there quality
differences between the models? Do they all program the same.
Would it be nice if they all did things the same so you didn't have
to read the instruction book?
Doctors, are they all the same or do they have different procedures
to correct for the same problem?
Buildings, are they all built to the same standards and isn't there
flexibility as to minimum standards Vs what a person is willing to
pay to beef the standards up to a higher level?
Don't roads vary to the differing communities?
Are all digital cameras the same when it comes to the type of
memory they use? Doesn't SONY use their very own memory stick
which won't work in a Canon product.
Haven't the standards of computers changed over just the last five
to ten years?
The examples are endless as to a perceived lack of "Standards"
within any industry.
Is it frustrating? Absolutely! Is it a pain in the patootie? Oh,
you betcha! Is it something that a neophyte has to get use to?
Sadly, yes
Hope the above ramblings help in your adjustment period
Good Luck!
