Apple’s Mac OS 9.1 ColorSync control panel directly provides a color profile for this monitor, and so I selected that profile and applied it. In particular, my Power Macintosh 7300/200 system makes use of an Apple 720 17” color monitor. Speaking of monitors, over the past several years I have had the incredible good fortune to acquire not just one, but two late 1990’s vintage Apple 17” Multiscan monitors.
However, at the time of my initial forays into digital photography, I had not advanced to that stage, and instead depended on manufacturer supplied color profiles to compensate for variances in camera, monitor and printer color capture and reproduction. “Old” does not imply “bad”!Ĭolor fidelity is incredibly important in digital photography, and after my first few years in the digital photography world, I purchased a colorimeter and have since always precisely calibrated the color reproduction of my monitors. Incidentally, after all this time, I still have both cameras and they both still work very well! Never discard old technology. The two cameras are only one year and 2 Mp apart, so I didn’t think that this was too much of an historical aberration. I could have used my first digital camera, the Olympus C3030, but I always liked the Minolta better, and so I decided to use it. To test this all out, I turned to my Mac OS 9.1 equipped Power Macintosh 7300/200 and my second digital camera, a Minolta Dimage 7i. Printing selected photos should also be part of the process, but I won’t address it in this post (more on that below). When I say “digital photography workflow”, what do I mean? I refer to the end-to-end process of taking photos on a digital camera, importing them onto your computer, triaging them to separate the winners from the losers, processing the winners through an image editor like Photoshop (as needed) and finally cataloging them for later easy access. This post reflects the outcome of that effort. What would have happened if I had magically solved all of my issues with Windows ME at the time by switching over to a Macintosh? Could I have supported a reasonable digital photography workflow on a Macintosh running Mac OS 9.x (which would have been current at that time)? I decided to try it and find out. I had a reasonable digital photography workflow in place despite the constant glitches and limitations imposed by Windows ME, but recently, I started to think… I got my first digital camera in 2001, a 3 Mp Olympus C3030.Īt that time, I had yet to see the light and was a Windows ME user (and every bit as unhappy with Windows ME as most of the rest of its user community… but that is another post entirely!).
Digital cameras become widely available in the late 1990s and really hit usefulness (which I define as 2 Mp and above) around the year 2000.
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