Dear LFers,
I am trying to wrap my head around a LF film > drum scan > C-print workflow that makes sense (to my small brain). Maybe you can explain this to me?
Note: I am committed to C-prints. Inkjet is just too expensive for my huge prints and I actually prefer the look of C-types. In any case: can you please explain to me - why was I taught to pursue A98 for the last 15+ years - what's the point of pursuing a profile that cannot be printed?
The general color space we all (every lab i've ever used) pursue is Adobe 98. A98 is much bigger than any paper ICC profile (lets not even talk about ProPhoto RGB...). So when I soft proof to the ICC profile, I see that lots of the colors that A98 can display on my monitor aren't printable in a C-print.
So when I scan, retouch, etc, I am working to get the image looking right in A98: my scans are converted to A98, my software is set to display for A98, my monitor cost $2000 to reproduce 99.3% of A98 ... for what? Just so I can dumb it down to my lab's ICC for Fuji Lustre which shows about 2/3 of the colors that A98 can display on a $2000 monitor?
I don't understand this. Should I just set my working space to the ICC printing space I am trying to print in and do all my adjustments for that space? Why is A98 this holy grail if it cannot be printed? Please explain.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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