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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ellis Vener Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 http://www.ellisvener.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
