[filmscanners] Re: CMYK rant (was Digital DarkroomComputer Builders?)

["Roger Eritja" <eritja@terra.es>]

If I understood correctly the CMYK issue, it has little to do with
photographers but is crucial on the printer's side. There seems to be an
agreement on the gamut limitation relative to RGB and that any file
translation must use the specific printer profile.

There's a discussion in another group about new challenges posed to
photographers by the advent of digital imaging. Digital photographers are
now being requested to perform most pre-press work (sometimes even
including blind CMYK conversion) before sending their images to the
publisher. This extra work implies that many pro photographers (not
scanning people such as this list' members, but rather people having
shifted to digital cameras) must learn complex colour management issues.
This might be OK provided this extra work is paid, which is not the case at
least here in Spain.

Some are wondering if it couldn't be more rewarding to get back to film
photography, sending slides as previously and not caring about pre-press
and colour management.

Just some thoughts,

Roger




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