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Apple fan tells Tim Cook that iPad helped grandfather cope with cancer, gets reply

macmichiel

May 2016

I have sent him a ton of messages, asking when the freaking MacMini and the MacPro will be updated. ZERO reply !

Apple announces 9.7" iPad Pro with Apple Pencil support, True Tone display, A9X CPU, starting at $5

macmichiel

March 2016

What does this mean for photographers ?

We look like donkeys now. With our goofy color checker passports and our expensive display calibration kit on our desks... Apart of course from our … (more)bag with a camera and one or more lenses, worth several thousands of euros.

No, our hobby or profession is over and done.

Photoshop ? Out the window ! Looking for that perfect look and feel for your black and white photo's ? A waste of time.

From now on, your photo's will look more and more yellow, as the day progresses, due to Night Shift.
If that is not all, True Tone will change the 'tint' of your display to match the light of the room you are in. So if you are in a room with a yellow or whatever colored lamp, your iPad will copy the temperature of that lamp and lays that 'tint' over your photo's or whatever you are looking at on your ipad. No questions asked !

No, i am not done yet. If your photos, which you have worked on for quite some time, aren't messed up enough, your -intended- colors are also shifted in their entirity. More towards red and green then intended. This is due to the DCI-P3 color profile of the screen of your new iPad which it uses to 'translate' your -intended- color settings before it is shown on the ipad. 99% of the mainstream pictures are carrying the sRGB 2.1 because 99% of all devices understand that profile. But if you send a friend such a picture, the ipad puts on it's sunglasses and shifts all the colors towards the DCI-P3 spectrum, which is different from the sRGB spectrum, hence the different look. And that difference is quite substantial.

ONLY if i know that you have an iPad DCI-P3, i can 'translate' my workingspace (adobe 1998) to DCI-P3, before i mail you the picture. ONLY then you'll see what i had intended as the photographer. But, who understands anything about color management right ?

It doesn't matter anymore. Our days were numbered already. Pictures are nothing to look at. They are just passing pixels. Consumed by teens who cannot even concentrate long enough to read my post.

Literally billions of hours that have gone into color correction and maintaining and understanding a workflow from camera to viewing media are destroyed now. If that picture is sent out, no soul on this earth will know what the guy on the other side will be looking at.

Thank you Apple for destroying an entire, very noble, and beautiful profession ! (less)

Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics

macmichiel

March 2016

Shouldn't the biggest, richest, whatever, computer company build computers for everybody ? I don't understand comments in favor of ignoring those who want a decent GPU. At least give the … (more)

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Apple fan tells Tim Cook that iPad helped grandfather cope with cancer, gets reply

Apple announces 9.7" iPad Pro with Apple Pencil support, True Tone display, A9X CPU, starting at $5

Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics