when I worked at Kodak I was an Imaging Systems Engineer on hybrid analog/digital commercial systems like film recorders and photographic paper writers I recognized the program they had to develop a photoshop like program didn't really address the whole workflow of commercial labs and focus groups confirmed that, I took the job as their systems person but backed out at the last minute since I foresaw the funding was going away, stupid career decision at the time I knew the story was bad beforehand due to the focus groups issues with workflow, course I got real stupid a lot of times back then I was using early versions of ICC color management, [URL]http://www.color.org[/URL] , it worked for the paper real well, but due to the print appearance rendering intent it did not reach the dynamic range and measuring techniques of transparent and translucent materials also it was difficult to develop targets and systems for negative applications based on the definition of a negative as an intent for a print with the ICC approach at the time, probably should have stuck with the PhotoCD scene intent for negatives which worked well for negative scanning now it looks like ICC is mature enough to support a variety of mathematical and appearance contexts and it might work Kodak had an internal system called PLUS that did matrices and smaller look up tables than ICC at the time, I think this is implement in their at least their own motion picture workstations at their cinesite, maybe they are using the newer ICC constructs now, I see they have licensed some technology to IMAX perhaps there is still some commercial market, their current largest investment to due a hybrid workstation, or maybe they could just start licensing the PLUS technology, could also expand motion picture workstations this way to other smaller cinesite investors and related technology firms they also had software for internegative balancing, totally analogy,, that could be developed for motion picture or licensing based on PLUS
