Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
It's a long hard road, Jack, with diminishing returns along the way. The point of the OP was just to demonstrate something that we're told often but not often shown. We're told that there are colors in nature that are so saturated (like intense or brilliant) that, even if the camera can capture them, it's not possible to show those exact colors on-screen or in-print even though our eyes saw them in the original scene. However, some software "working spaces" (meaning color spaces) can capture and manipulate many of those saturated colors. But what you see on the screen is not what's in the working space because there's translation software in the computer to translate (but not convert, i.e. change) any image to "look right" on your screen or print. This is one possible source of the standard whine "looks right on the screen but the print looks like cr@p".

There are several ways to go from a source image in a software working space (in RAM, not yet saved") which are explained here: https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tu...conversion.htm

There is also the subject of "ICC color profiles" waiting to confuse the living mojon out of you

I perceive that you do have an interest, so good luck!



That link is bad - gives error 404 'not found'
Ted, thanks for a very succinct and much appreciated explanation. I seriously read through some of the comments and realized I didn't get A. Thing. Fortunately I don't need to understand it all to go out and take pics. And since I'm kinda goin' in a B&W direction it may not be immediately relevant but eventually I suspect I'm gonna want to have a better understanding of this.
Thanks for taking the time,
J