“How do you know, when you think blue — when you say blue — that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else?"
Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
The goals of this article are twofold: the first is to demonstrate that out-of-camera JPEGs, including in-camera previews, can’t be implicitly, with no checking, used to evaluate color (as we already know, the in-camera histogram is misleading, too). The second is to show that it isn’t necessary that the camera manufacturer-recommended converter be specifically tuned to match the out-of-camera JPEG.
