Hi All, If we have any photographers in the list, has anyone been able to use the Display Colorimeter and Photo Spectrometer features of this device under Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu 18.04)? It is an expensive piece of kit, but I need to be able to print with certainty, because printing is so damn expensive. The alternative is to find a way to profile the roll printers used by Office works or other print services. Many thanks Andrew Greig
I have had no trouble printing printing photo images with excellent colour balance with little to no image manipulation, but I have taken the trouble to get equipment specific to photo work' By the way my camera is either a Nikon D700, D810 or Sony A35 (Note 1). Printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 890, monitor is an HPZR30w and was as I said specficly chosen for its photo capabilities. Rawstudio is used and I always use the raw image format of the camera concerned (better tonal range). I always do photo work near a window with a view outside into the garden, this is to make sure my eyes colour balance is not upset by any artificial light sources. Any images out of colour balance , very rare with the Nikons, occasional though with the Sony, are balanced to look correct on the monitor. The correct profile for the Epson 890 in Gimprint needs to be selected for best results. Work flow is... Remove SD card from camera and place in a reader and connect same to computor Copy required raw images to work location Run images through my image naming script. to make sure all images have an easily understandable unique name. View raw image in either Rawstudio of Rawtherapee, any colour correction required (very rare) is done here. Bring up image in Gimp, crop image and scale to the required size, NO image correction is done in Gimp. Print image with Gimps print function Its a longish process but does EVERYTHING I require, producing excellent printed results. Printing in the high quality modes on The Epson 890 IS an expensive process an A3 plus print costing around 7 dollars, but the results are first class. Note 1: The Sony was purchased as a small cheapish camera (I have a VERY good lens on it), that I can use in places that the D800/700 (F2.8 24-70 lens) would either be to big and heavy or simply to much of risk to take such expensive gear in. Lindsay ----- Original message ----- From: "Andrew Greig via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Subject: Re: ArgyllCMS, DisplayCal and the X-Rite i1 Studio Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 21:27:28 +1000 Hi All, If we have any photographers in the list, has anyone been able to use the Display Colorimeter and Photo Spectrometer features of this device under Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu 18.04)? It is an expensive piece of kit, but I need to be able to print with certainty, because printing is so damn expensive. The alternative is to find a way to profile the roll printers used by Office works or other print services. Many thanks Andrew Greig _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
Post Script. There are two reasons for the image renaming script Its nice to have the images time stamp in the image name, 2nd the camera's image sequence number is required is both Nikons can easily produce 6 frames a second with no effort. Lindsay ----- Original message ----- From: "Lindsay W via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Subject: Re: ArgyllCMS, DisplayCal and the X-Rite i1 Studio Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:27:43 -0700 I have had no trouble printing printing photo images with excellent colour balance with little to no image manipulation, but I have taken the trouble to get equipment specific to photo work' By the way my camera is either a Nikon D700, D810 or Sony A35 (Note 1). Printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 890, monitor is an HPZR30w and was as I said specficly chosen for its photo capabilities. Rawstudio is used and I always use the raw image format of the camera concerned (better tonal range). I always do photo work near a window with a view outside into the garden, this is to make sure my eyes colour balance is not upset by any artificial light sources. Any images out of colour balance , very rare with the Nikons, occasional though with the Sony, are balanced to look correct on the monitor. The correct profile for the Epson 890 in Gimprint needs to be selected for best results. Work flow is... Remove SD card from camera and place in a reader and connect same to computor Copy required raw images to work location Run images through my image naming script. to make sure all images have an easily understandable unique name. View raw image in either Rawstudio of Rawtherapee, any colour correction required (very rare) is done here. Bring up image in Gimp, crop image and scale to the required size, NO image correction is done in Gimp. Print image with Gimps print function Its a longish process but does EVERYTHING I require, producing excellent printed results. Printing in the high quality modes on The Epson 890 IS an expensive process an A3 plus print costing around 7 dollars, but the results are first class. Note 1: The Sony was purchased as a small cheapish camera (I have a VERY good lens on it), that I can use in places that the D800/700 (F2.8 24-70 lens) would either be to big and heavy or simply to much of risk to take such expensive gear in. Lindsay ----- Original message ----- From: "Andrew Greig via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Subject: Re: ArgyllCMS, DisplayCal and the X-Rite i1 Studio Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 21:27:28 +1000 Hi All, If we have any photographers in the list, has anyone been able to use the Display Colorimeter and Photo Spectrometer features of this device under Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu 18.04)? It is an expensive piece of kit, but I need to be able to print with certainty, because printing is so damn expensive. The alternative is to find a way to profile the roll printers used by Office works or other print services. Many thanks Andrew Greig _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
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