Camera color spaces

[mojo73]

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I am sure that the S 2 like the DMR module supports the rgb and Adobe rgb color spaces. I would like to see the S2 and future R 10 support the Kodak Prophoto color space since it has the largest color range available. The reason I am requesting this capabilty is superior color correction that Leica optics have. We might as well take advantage of Leica's optical quality for better picture color.

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[mjh]

The camera’s gamut is limited by the sensor and its RGB filter pattern, not by the lens. I wonder whether the gamut will really exceed the gamut of Adobe RGB or eciRGB to make it worthwhile to choose an even larger color space instead. Also, you would need an output device supporting such a wide gamut or it wouldn’t make any difference.

 

And anyway, this is all immaterial when shooting raw, and what else would you do if it is the highest image quality you are after?

[mojo73]

You miss the point of my argument. We have these fabulous lenses that can faithfully capture the colors of this world. But you have color spaces that chop off the range of a CIE chart and you are content with that? I'm not. Let's remember that digital imaging is an evolving technology and what was acceptable to use due technological limitations at the time, may not be so today. I know that digital imaging can surpass what was done in film. I say improve those standards or use mewer better ones.I am suggesting the Kodak Photopro color space to be an option.It is a standard that Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom already support support in current products.I use D cam color spaces crested by Joseph Holmes. You might want to got to Joseph Holmes Natural Light Photography Home Page and read his articles about color spaces.

[cboudier]

It seems to me that you misunderstood what these colours spaces are for...

 

The gamut (quantity of colours) the camera is able to record can be estimated by analysing the dedicated colours space that is provided with some pieces of software (like Capture One for example)

This camera's colours space has nothing to do with AdobeRGB or ProPhoto, which are working spaces, even if you can set this as an option in the camera menu : when you do this, you simply "stick" a sign onto your photos, nothing more. If you use a "good" RAW developing software, you can forget this option completely.

What is important is that the provider of your software made a good colours space for your camera.

 

Have a look here, it's about the gamut of the M8...

[mjh]

I say improve those standards or use mewer better ones.

It is not like one color space was better than another. Different color spaces are serving different purposes. If you shoot in JPEG mode – and apparently you do, as the color space setting is meaningless when using raw –, then you are limited to 16,777,216 colors, regardless of the color space. The bigger the gamut of the selected color space, the coarser the resolution of colors will be, as those 16,777,216 values must be stretched to cover a greater range of colors. Do you believe that capturing a greater range of colors is more important than resolving fine nuances of color? Some photographers might think otherwise, especially when the subject doesn’t require an extremely large gamut in the first place.