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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Prints versus screen images.

2009-04-08 by Gary Weaver

As far as ultimate image goes, I started wondering  five years ago why we are not doing holographic. I guess that would be too spooky for some.

gar

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On 4/8/2009 at 12:03 PM Aaron Shepard wrote:

>I don't see how either prints _or_ screen images can be seen as the 
>ultimate image. Reflecting the capabilities of today's digital 
>cameras, the default color space for Lightroom is ProPhoto, which 
>includes colors that neither of those media can display. In other 
>words, there's literally no medium that can accurately represent the 
>image. All you can get is compromises -- different ones in different 
>media. Each medium has advantages and disadvantages, but
>the image itself remains an ideal that we will never actually see.
>
>Aaron

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