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At 11:42 AM +0200 5/30/05, Jean-Yves Le Ridant wrote:
>  > I thought about this further...
>
>>  Apart from including ICC profiles, our best option to communicate 
>>grayscale in a
>>  scientifically unambigious way,
>
>Have someone seen a ICC profile, a EXIF object, a BROUZOUF object,
>make something else than adding ambiguity ?
>( Don't say waste CPU cycles and RAID cylinders, I know )
>

Huh?

ICC profiles REMOVE ambiguity - they precisely define the 
interpretation of the values in the image.
They certainly are not a waste of time or space.

EXIF helps reduce ambiguity about the image data (but since 
everything is marked as sRGB, Adobe RGB or untagged - it doesn't 
remove it).

Chris
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