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Originally Posted by Canonite
So basically cameras and monitors etc use an RGB colour space, the size of that gamut varies hugely. For example when you shoot a RAW image and then compress it into a jpeg, the colour space compressed down too.
Printers don’t use RGB, their colour space is made of CMYK so the ICC profiles are vital to ensure the perfect colour match is achieved.
Think of the red colour scheme of Coca-Cola of the purple colour of Cadbury, it’s vital those iconic brand colours are accurately reproduced.
I think there are some newer RGB printers but even so, they still require an accurate ICC profile for that media and the output monitor would have to be calibrated correctly too.
Some high end Nikon’s can shoot a 24 bit colour gamut, but it’s invisible to the human eye, even if you have a monitor that’s capable of displaying it all. Lol
It’s quite a deep subject really
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Originally Posted by Canonite
Any reputable print shop should happily email you the ICC for the media to be printed so you can proof it on your own machine before paying for/wasting the print.
That’s why I use the Retina display as the colour calibration is pretty damn accurate straight out the box. So if I proof a batch of images for a book for example using the printers profile, if there’s any issue with the outcome being too dark or with skewed colours, I can be sure it’s their problem and not mine.
When I displayed my panel of images for my LRPS distinction, they had to be bang on. I lost sleep over the details.
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Thank you again.
I will ask for it and see what they say.
Actually, we are looking at getting a desktop computer after the house sale is completed.
Perhaps I should look at an Apple. I would prefer to stick with Windows but I understand Apple is much better for photography.