Color Management in Digital Still Cameras

Abstract

The market of digital still cameras (DSCs) is growing dramatically and they are superseding conventional film cameras even in the printing workflow. This report briefly explains the color management method to realize better color reproduction by optimizing the color correction matrix and spectral distribution function of input devices and also describes the limitation of this optimization within the actual DSC system. Color-imetric measurement concerning the precision of a real DSC product on the market has shown an example of the ability of the color management in DSCs and some hints for the correction within the output systems to get better results will be shortly discussed.