Re: SANE V2 - again...

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:37:14 -0700

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ewald@pobox.com said:
> Nearly all scanners use CCD or CMOS sensors which are inherently
> linear devices so there would be no practical need for doing
> non-linear color transforms. A 3x3 matrix followed by a tonemap would
> be good enough.

I'm not the expert here, but it seems that the profiles that the
automated tools produce is a bit more complex then that. Personally,
I agree with you, but, ...

At any rate, I think ICC profiles are a front-end issue. Let Photoshop
or gimp deal with it.

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