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What do Kodak's Cineon/DPX documents and the ACES ADX transforms define for printing-density encoding (0.002 density per code value, D-min 95, LAD 685), and which number comes from which document?

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Kodak H-387 (Digital LAD, 2011) defines printing density as 0.002 x 10-bit code value with the digital LAD patch at code value 685 = printing density 1.370, states those are printing (not Status M) densities, and also tabulates the corresponding Status M values for the recorded intermediate stock. Curator qualifications: Cineon draft, scanning recommendations, ADX CTL and DPX statements (E2-E8) not reinspected. Status M columns apply to the named recording stocks/tables, not as a general conversion. Limitations: One Kodak guide. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/Cineon-File-Format-Description.pdf",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/Scanning-Recommendations-for-Extended-Dynamic-Range-Camera-Films-EN.pdf",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/Users-Guide-and-Digital-Recorder-Calibration-and-Aims-H-387.pdf",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000178.shtml",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ampas/aces-dev/blob/528c78fe2c0f4e7eb322581e98aba05de79466cb/transforms/ctl/csc/ADX/ACEScsc.Academy.ADX10_to_ACES.ctl",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ampas/aces-dev/blob/528c78fe2c0f4e7eb322581e98aba05de79466cb/transforms/ctl/csc/ADX/ACEScsc.Academy.ADX16_to_ACES.ctl",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://spitzak.github.io/conversion/cineon.html",
      "note": "Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Kodak H-387 (Digital LAD, 2011) defines printing density as 0.002 x 10-bit code value with the digital LAD patch at code value 685 = printing density 1.370, states those are printing (not Status M) densities, and also tabulates the corresponding Status M values for the recorded intermediate stock. · locator: Kodak H-387 (2011) page 1 notes; Table II/III LAD rows (pdftotext lines 44-56, 73-84, 104) source

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