Charles Poynton

I am an independent contractor specializing in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital colour (color!) imaging systems, including digital still cameras, digital video, HD (HDTV), digital cinema (D-cinema) and digital intermediate (DI) systems. I am involved in engineering wide colour gamut (wide color gamut/wide gamut color) systems, including xvYCC; I am an expert in colorspaces such as DCI P3 RGB, AdobeRGB, sYCC601, and AdobeYCC601. I do technology forecasting, systems modelling, algorithm development, video signal processing architecture, colour characterization and calibration, and image quality assessment. (More...) It was about 20 years ago that I decided that HD should have square pixels ...

I'm a PhD student at Simon Fraser University; my supervisor is Brian Funt.

I live in Toronto with my wife Barbara Morris, RMT, CTP Dipl – a massage therapist and psychotherapist – and our two girls, 19 and 21.

home office: +1 416 535 7187
e-mail: prepend my first name to the obvious domain.
Skype (intermittent user): cpoynton
Twitter: momaku

I’m in Sydney, Autralia, visiting fxphd/fxguide. I’ll present a 1-day Linear, log RGB, log neg, and Cineon seminar on Thu. Jan 19, and a 1-day Stops, Steps, Looks, and LUTs: The Art of Digital Cinematography seminar on Fri. Jan 20, both at fxphd/Future Reality/Deluxe in Lane Cove. To register, contact Future Reality at info@future.com.au or by phone +61 2 9925 4355 in Sydney.

Digital Video and HD Algorithms and Interfaces, Second Edition (Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2012), is coming soon – it’s at the printer.

I presented these two seminars in Toronto, on Sat. Nov. 12 in Technicolor’s Theatre 1. Thanks to Sony of Canada and to Technicolor, we had a Sony BVM-E250 AMOLED display on hand to demonstrate. (There’s a chance that one or both of these seminars will be presented in Vancouver in mid-to-late February. Contact me if you’re interested.)

I continue to be flummoxed concerning BT.1886 EOCF …

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