More Proof Apple doesn’t Understand Video and Colorspace
If you are going to have your photo displayed on an iPhone, don’t show your teeth when you smile, don’t look directly at the camera, and don’t be wearing white…
I had a "discussion" with someone who I work with who used the "authority by association" argument that Apple was the best platform for video and image editing. I have long argued that even if you like the software, Apple has been notorious for F’ing the color space, which creates problems if you want what you have created to look right on anything other than the same model Apple you were working on.
The argument against using Macs for Video and Image editing was legitimized earlier this year by the iMac display class action suit. But the latest "proof" of Apple’s lack of understanding of conformance with standards, or even consistency in their product lines is the new iPhone 3g with its new less white display. Now all of your photos can have that warm sepia look. iPhone 3G and firmware 2.0- the day after or Apple- iPhone 3G display color warmer by design have images of the old vs. the new.
The New less compliant display will make your children look a little less pale, and their eyes have a bit more of that Yellow "crazy" look. The previous iphone actually did a pretty good job with taking photos that were the same color when they were displayed as taken, and accurately reproduced colors from images taken on other phones, but the new display, which has a warmer color simply has a "wrong" colored back light, so gradients aren’t smooth, and contrast is greatly decreased.
Granted the iphone is not designed to be a "proofing" quality display, but it would be nice if your slide decks for elevator pitches done in an elevator would be the same color as when you made them on your desktop, or if your Wedding dress photos, didn’t look like you had been playing in the dirt before hand, or your smiling friends didn’t look like chain smokers with yellowed teeth.
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