[Leica] Rudely awakened by color management

[john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)]

Tim,

Thanks for you comments.  They spurred me to check on the specifications on 
the 
Ipad and the drift on the 'net appeared to be that color management was 
supported, making IE the odd man out for large screen viewing of photos.

If IE were to be brought around, color management would likely be the thing 
to 
do, but of course you are correct about sRGB for the current environment. 
Personally,  I'd prefer to avoid the extra small step effectively degrading 
the 
color by converting it to a smaller space.

Best,

John

Tim Gray wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2010 at 06:19 PM -0600, John Nebel wrote:
>> I've been careful to calibrate monitors and to be aware of color 
>> management, however, until Sunday I hadn't realized that Microsoft 
>> didn't care as much with its browser.  I rarely use Explorer, but most 
>> people still do and that's what counts.
> 
> I'm not huge into color management, since I mainly shoot film still, but 
> I like to think of it like this: We take care to make sure our files 
> have the right resolution, color space profile, sharpening, etc., for 
> specific outputs.  An 11x17 print on an inkjet on a matte paper is going 
> to get a different treatment than a 4x6 RA4 print.  Likewise, the web is 
> a specific output format.  One that calls for sRGB conversion.
> 
> It gets worse than just IE.  I know Safari has color management, but who 
> knows about the iPhone/iPad? Or Blackberries, or HDTVs, or...  It's nice 
> that some browsers have color management to fall back on, or for use in 
> specific situations, but for the most part, the web is sRGB.
> 
> It's very easy to add a "convert to sRGB" step in a output action in 
> Photoshop.  I'm sure Aperture and Lightroom have the option for 
> conversion on output; I know Photo Mechanic does, and that's not even an 
> editing program.
> 
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