Colour Gamut and Chemical Paper

[lennythelens]

Hi All,

There's a lot of talk in the digtal world bout colour gamut and working colour spaces. But how do these compare with the old chemically processed film and paper?

Do you have a wider colour space when using film and are the film prints more colourful than those you can print today? Are we going backwards on quality :???:

[DocFrankenstein]

Let me know if you'll find out anything concrete on the topic.

From my subjective experience in optically printed negatives... they capture differently. The dynamic range is different, so the Z axis of the color profile would be better represented in a color negative... as the other 2 axis, I don't know. Digital might be as good or even better.

[DavidW]

One interesting thing I did was to download the generic ICC profile for a Fuji Frontier (I forget which model) from the Fuji web site, and compare that using the Windows XP Color Powertoy to the profiles of my printer and my monitor.

That's probably about as near as you can get to isolating the wet chemistry from everything else - obviously in a workflow that uses film, the film choice and the processing will determine the gamut available and what colour shift(s) happen. Many modern labs scan your film, then print on a Frontier or similar.



David

[DocFrankenstein]

One way you can do it is to compare an optically printed print you like to a ICC preview on a calibrated monitor...

They have to be of the same scene, with the same exposure.