In other words, working in DCI(P3) means chopping off a big chunk of greens and red and blues*. The gamut plot shows that the calibrated PA302W greatly exceeds the gamut of the DCI(P3) color space aka “Digital Cinema (DCI)”. As shown below, I calibrated my NEC PA302W today. It all depends on subject matter: the gamut required for proper color rendition depends on the subject matter. But you might also shoot all day with intensely saturated flowers or fabrics or whatever, and be out of gamut on every image. That said, one might shoot all day and never make an image that is out of gamut even in sRGB. Images with wide gamut suffer mightily from inappropriate color space and bit-depth choices, because detail and nuance are squashed right out of the image. Modern digital cameras can deliver images with colors well beyond the gamut of AdobeRGB or DCI(P3), that is, for certain subject matter.
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I’ve long published my photographs on the web in the AdobeRGB color space, because I cater to professional photographers. DCI(P3) is a good thing, because it means that more and more users will be able to see color properly on the internet (60% of my photography blog readers are on Macs). The rest of this discussion is aimed at professionals and those who take color seriously in their photography. In my DAP publication, see material on why color space matters for photographers. Gamut of late 2015 Mac 5K vs NEC PA302W DCI(P3) is better than sRGB, but it is not a wide gamut But also observe that the NEC PA302W extends far more deeply into the greens and cyans and somewhat more into the blues.ĭiscussion continues below. Observe (toggle) that the gamut of the iMac 5K is excellent into the yellowish reds (along that area of the axis), even a little better into the reds than the PA302W. So until and unless color calibration solutions are able to faux calibrate the iMac 5K display in 10-bit color (still inferior to true calibration), the iMac 5K is not a serious solution in terms of its display (see my workhorse wide gamut display, the NEC PA302W). Yet Apple is silent on at which profile the brightness was made. There is also one glaring issue with the Apple-supplied display profile (“Display P3”): what hardware calibration does the profile describe? Depending on screen brightness (including auto brightness control), not only will the color gamut vary, but the profile will not be accurate with brightness that differs from the hardware state (calibration) that the profile describes. Shooting in sRGB clips off all the colors one might hope to see on the new display! That is a very good thing for iMac users-well, sort of: 99.99% of camera users (including iPhone users) shoot in the sRGB color space (derisively aka “sad” RGB). The color gamut of the iMac 5K is the best ever delivered by Apple, covering the DCI(P3) gamut. See also diglloyd-recommended performance packages for iMac at OWC. Get iMac 5K at B&H Photo and see also MPG’s computer gear wishlist. Send Feedback Related: 4K and 5K display, color space and gamut, computer display, iMac, iMac 5K, Macs, NEC PA302W, NEC professional displays
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