Re: Endless gamma in eXIf 2017-0119

here is I think another topic that slowly has become irrelevant in 20 
years : GAMMA

yes, it was a big thing in the past century when PC's and Mac's had 
different gamma corrections

hey, I was (I still am :) the proud owner of a NextStation that had a 
PostScript driven display with gamma 1.0 -- one-dot-zero!! <vbg>, that 
should be the benchmark

on a sidenote: for many years I had in my basement a still running 
computer that had a performance of SpecINT 1.0 (it was the baseline for 
spec's), you may guess which computer model that was :-)

back on topic, I think that in a time of laptops, iPhones, tablets, 
YouTube, media players, etc. nobody still worries (or cares) about gamma 
correction

and those that do worry about those topics, like GC guys/gals in 
Hollywood plus the Pixar's of this world, they do completely their own 
thing -- and they know what they're doing !!

--

so yes, we can have an app that is scaling the image but still adding 
the original exif data, but soon we'll either say "ok, we still have the 
time-stamp and GPS coordinates of the original picture, that's helpful" 
or we we'll switch to another application that does a better job

in short, people will figure it out ... or they will not care, probably 
99% !!

let's not become zealots here ... at least that's my $0.02

Willem





On 2017-02-06 20:33, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> I verified that ImageMagick doesn't modify the Exif profile when
> it changes the image data
>

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Willem van Schaik
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