Dale
2013-12-06 04:09:24 UTC
when I worked at Kodak I was an Imaging Systems Engineer on hybrid
analog/digital commercial systems like film recorders and photographic
paper writers
I recognized the program they had to develop a photoshop like program
didn't really address the whole workflow of commercial labs and focus
groups confirmed that, I took the job as their systems person but backed
out at the last minute since I foresaw the funding was going away,
stupid career decision at the time I knew the story was bad beforehand
due to the focus groups issues with workflow, course I got real stupid a
lot of times back then
I was using early versions of ICC color management, http://www.color.org
, it worked for the paper real well, but due to the print appearance
rendering intent it did not reach the dynamic range and measuring
techniques of transparent and translucent materials
also it was difficult to develop targets and systems for negative
applications based on the definition of a negative as an intent for a
print with the ICC approach at the time, probably should have stuck with
the PhotoCD scene intent for negatives which worked well for negative
scanning
now it looks like ICC is mature enough to support a variety of
mathematical and appearance contexts and it might work
Kodak had an internal system called PLUS that did matrices and smaller
look up tables than ICC at the time, I think this is implement in their
at least their own motion picture workstations at their cinesite, maybe
they are using the newer ICC constructs now, I see they have licensed
some technology to IMAX
perhaps there is still some commercial market, their current largest
investment to due a hybrid workstation, or maybe they could just start
licensing the PLUS technology, could also expand motion picture
workstations this way to other smaller cinesite investors and related
technology firms
they also had software for internegative balancing, totally analogy,,
that could be developed for motion picture or licensing based on PLUS
analog/digital commercial systems like film recorders and photographic
paper writers
I recognized the program they had to develop a photoshop like program
didn't really address the whole workflow of commercial labs and focus
groups confirmed that, I took the job as their systems person but backed
out at the last minute since I foresaw the funding was going away,
stupid career decision at the time I knew the story was bad beforehand
due to the focus groups issues with workflow, course I got real stupid a
lot of times back then
I was using early versions of ICC color management, http://www.color.org
, it worked for the paper real well, but due to the print appearance
rendering intent it did not reach the dynamic range and measuring
techniques of transparent and translucent materials
also it was difficult to develop targets and systems for negative
applications based on the definition of a negative as an intent for a
print with the ICC approach at the time, probably should have stuck with
the PhotoCD scene intent for negatives which worked well for negative
scanning
now it looks like ICC is mature enough to support a variety of
mathematical and appearance contexts and it might work
Kodak had an internal system called PLUS that did matrices and smaller
look up tables than ICC at the time, I think this is implement in their
at least their own motion picture workstations at their cinesite, maybe
they are using the newer ICC constructs now, I see they have licensed
some technology to IMAX
perhaps there is still some commercial market, their current largest
investment to due a hybrid workstation, or maybe they could just start
licensing the PLUS technology, could also expand motion picture
workstations this way to other smaller cinesite investors and related
technology firms
they also had software for internegative balancing, totally analogy,,
that could be developed for motion picture or licensing based on PLUS
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