Posted by John Mikes on October 6, 2006 at 9:15 AM
Well, it's Ken Rockwell, so you always have to read with your skepticism switch set to on/full and your BS detector running in the background, but he's right about a couple of things: sRGB and sending out your prints. sRGB works great and any of the printers I've worked with use it. I haven't printed a pic that I really cared about in a couple of years. It just isn't cost-effective. I've settled on White House in the Twin Cities (http://www.whcc.com/) as my printer of choice. Good prices, the quality is excellent, and second day shipping via UPS is included in the price: two bucks for a glossy 8x10 delivered to my door in two days. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, except as a customer.)
He’s right about color in the sense of an amateur’s take on color management. Modern P&S cameras are pretty good for getting good color from camera to prints at ritz or what-have-you. It’s a good process for family shots and memento images. I don’t blame him, sometimes you want something that gets color close enough and is fast, easy and cheep.
Its not the attitude I would take for my “Good” images where the color plays an importiant part of the image. When it comes to fine tuning your images, I like having a lot of bit depth "headroom" to prevent clipped and crunched colors. 8bit sRGB jpegs are good. but 16Bit ProPhotoRGB PSD's are best
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Its not the attitude I would take for my “Good” images where the color plays an importiant part of the image. When it comes to fine tuning your images, I like having a lot of bit depth "headroom" to prevent clipped and crunched colors. 8bit sRGB jpegs are good. but 16Bit ProPhotoRGB PSD's are best