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Wide-gamut image capture
  DOI :  10.2352/CGIV.2010.5.1.art00074  Published OnlineJanuary 2010
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Colour gamut refers to the range of colours that can be reproduced by an imaging system. The definition of gamut is quite clear for displays and for hard-copy printing. Colour image science experts disagree, however, on the definition – or even applicability of the concept – of gamut for cameras. I disagree that there is any meaningful concept of “capture gamut.” In this note, I review trichromacy and metamerism and discuss various gamuts. I conclude that although metamerism is a phenomenon of what I call “31-space,” gamut lives in 3-space. With suitable colour signal processing, a 3-channel camera is capable of acquiring wide gamut images.

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Charles Poynton, "Wide-gamut image capturein Proc. IS&T CGIV 2010/MCS'10 5th European Conf. on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision 12th Int'l Symp. on Multispectral Colour Science,  2010,  pp 471 - 482,  https://doi.org/10.2352/CGIV.2010.5.1.art00074

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