once again contre-sRGB :)

[Iliah]

I never noticed that myself, but today Julia brought out some weired fact: Old Glory Blue is out of sRGB gamut. One of US flag colours is irreproducible in sRGB. How silly is that!

 

[heiko]

I never noticed that myself, but today Julia brought out some weired fact: Old Glory Blue is out of sRGB gamut. One of US flag colours is irreproducible in sRGB. How silly is that!

Does it go into Adobe RGB ?

 

[Iliah]

"Old Glory Blue" is Pantone 281c, inside Adobe RGB gamut

 

[marek]

One of US flag colours is irreproducible in sRGB.

*tongue firmly placed in cheek*Yeah we should be tailoring a color space to one specific flag, or better yet let's change the flag so that it can be easily captured using SRGB for all those P&S'ers!*tongue removed from cheek*

Does it miss by a mile?

 

[Iliah]

Dear Marek,

My post was also kind of TiC.

Still, it is most strange for me that HP and Microsoft are insisting on such a standard ("s" stands for "standard" in sRGB abbreviation), being US-based companies.

If you will look through the colour libraries, you will see that many "spot" colours of different flags and trademarks are out of sRGB gamut.

 

[MontyDog]

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax;

 

[Iliah]

Dear Paul, "The State flag of the Russian Federation. General specifications" does not specify the colours. 2 years ago asked our officials, and they explained that "we do not have official colours". They recommended Pantone 185C for red and Pantone 300C for blue. I ended up using colours from the Dutch flag, as Peter I borroughed Russian Trade flag (which is the official Russian flag now) from Holland.

 

[greyflash]

That is pretty much of a crack up.

 

[marek]

Problem is...

...once something is a standard, then for better or worse it's entrained in all the systems and takes momentum (read $$$) to move.

Then again, at the end of the day aren;t we bound by ink gamuts? (unless of course you;re electronic only). Would be nice if everything ran aRGB or better though.

edit: also you assume people think about these things when working out the product. It's usually stuff that seems a no brainer ONCE someone else points it out!

 

[Iliah]

Then again, at the end of the day aren;t we bound by ink gamuts?

No, of course! We have special spot colour dyes, and when we need to print Coke Red, we use Coke Red dye.

 

[heiko]

"Old Glory Blue" is Pantone 281c, inside Adobe RGB gamut

What a relief, I'm using Adobe RGB :smile: . Although I'm not shooting American flags so often, it just proofs the point of using a wider gamut.

 

[Gale]

Dear Iliah......

Gale----------------> runs to gallery to hide the flag image :>))))

Regards.

 

[Iliah]

Oh well, Gale! ROFL