Brent J. Peterson Posted March 21, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 21, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Many thanks to all who have posted on this forum. I have been reading and learning a lot since getting my M8 last month. Â Using C1 LE I am confused by what profile to select when saving out a .tiff file I intend to have printed. Â I'm having my prints made by a lab that uses a Durst Lambda and Fuji Crystal Archive paper. Â Can anyone offer me some advice? Should my lab be assigning the Leica M8 generic profile I generally use when they print, or do I need to use Adobe RGB? The color space and profile options get confusing to me. Â -Brent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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joern Posted March 21, 2007 Share #2  Posted March 21, 2007 Brent,  the camera profile (the one that you selected) describes the spectral range of the camera/chip. This is the SOURCE. Your DESTINATION/TARGET is the durst lambda for example. I guess that you will not making a mistake by choosing ADOBE RGB (1998) as your output profile. To say it it simple: This transforms the special color space of your camera into a popular, concrete defined color space. So now you are using a standard. For perfect results ask your printing lab what color space profile they want/use. Maybe they have built an own one.  Some good info about icc profiles is found at http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=505&Industry=1&Segment=12&Action=Literature  >Guide to Color Management<  Hope it helps.  jørn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 21, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted March 21, 2007 Use Adobe RGB for a Lamda Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 21, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted March 21, 2007 It depends on the lab. In my case they have their own profiler, I send in my TIFFfile in aRGB and the lab will apply the appropriate profile.Other labs will supply the profile on request for you to apply. So as others have said: contact your lab and ask. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfarkas Posted March 21, 2007 Share #5  Posted March 21, 2007 With customers submitting files to our lab for Durst Theta photographic prints, we recommend highest quality JPEGs in sRGB. Your monitor profile for most accurate WYSIWYG should be set to 6500ºK with a gamma of 2.2. With these settings, what you see on your monitor (calibrated and profiled, of course) will be what you get in a print.  I understand this defies a lot "workshop wisdom" but the proof is in the print. Yes, we do have our own profiles for our printers, but have found the best results to be when we receive files in a standard color space and our rendering software takes care of the color conversion, not the user. This allows our printer technicians to balance the color, density, contrast, and saturation accordingly for each image.  David Dale Photo & Digital aka Dale Laboratories Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joern Posted March 21, 2007 Share #6  Posted March 21, 2007 David,  that´s what i would call professional. Compliment.  jørn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent J. Peterson Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share #7  Posted March 24, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I checked with my lab (Ferrari Color) and they recommended that I use Adobe RGB 1998. Similar to David's comments they said that their rendering software and technicians would take care of the color conversion and print quality. Special thanks to jørn for your reply - your reply really helped me. -Brent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joern Posted March 24, 2007 Share #8  Posted March 24, 2007 Special thanks to jørn for your reply - your reply really helped me.-Brent  Brent,  you are welcome.  jørn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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