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Title: how to know the color space is adobe 1998 in a nef file.
Post by: siamak on February 01, 2013, 04:39:29 AM

I have images that taken with setting of color space of adobe 1998 with nikon d50. these raw images when opens with Nikon Capture NX2 or View NX identified in their MetaData as Colorspace Adobe 1998. I know that Nef file tags do not specifies these as Adobe 1998 and are two tags one set to RO2 and the other one set to uncalibrated. Simple Exiftool myfile.nef does not show the color space. How one can know these files color space or above two tags values? What would be the Exiftool Command.

Title: Re: how to know the color space is adobe 1998 in a nef file.
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 01, 2013, 07:07:45 AM

Did you try this?:

exiftool -colorspace image.nef

- Phil

Title: Re: how to know the color space is adobe 1998 in a nef file.
Post by: siamak on February 01, 2013, 07:23:08 AM

Thanks Phil for quick reply.
Yes and respond is:
======== filename.nef

Title: Re: how to know the color space is adobe 1998 in a nef file.
Post by: siamak on February 01, 2013, 07:30:25 AM

The only way that I could interpret was that ColorHue Mode 1 and 3a are sRGB and Mode 2a is Adobe 1998. If so it will work for my script but would complicates it if I need to run it with mix raw files

Title: Re: how to know the color space is adobe 1998 in a nef file.
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 01, 2013, 07:35:47 AM

You're right. I checked, and the D50 doesn't store the ColorSpace information in NEF files like most other Nikon cameras.

But it seems that you have found a work-around. I can't suggest anything better myself because I don't have any D50 NEF samples with the different color modes.

- Phil

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