Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
"Profiling your scanner has the unintended effect of clipping the gamut of the scanner to the gamut of the target."
Could someone explain this, because I profile my scanners and then sometimes scan in Prophoto for archiving. Yet there is a huge difference in gamut between scanning in Prophoto vs, Adobe RGB with a profiled scanner with the same IT8 target. What am I missing here.
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
Profiling your scanner has the unintended effect of clipping the gamut of the scanner to the gamut of the target.
But, I would think that if your target equals or exceeds the gamut of the material you are scanning, this is not a problem.
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
"It is IMPOSSIBLE to profile for colour neg or BW..."
So why does Kodak make IT8 targets for color negative film?
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
Brian, Where? I have never seen them.
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
Brian, so you can create custom means of handling the neg to pos conversion. this is not an icc profile. I have targets for my usual neg stocks for this reason
Julian
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
Seriously Brian where have you seen IT8's for Kodak color negs ? I have looked a few times and could never find any from any manufacturer.
Is it really neccessary to profile your scanner?
"So why does Kodak make IT8 targets for color negative film?"
After a thorough search of the web, once again I can find 0 references to IT8 color negative charts by any manufacturer. Therefore Brian I assume you are mistaken.