Re: Monitor Calibration
Re: Monitor Calibration
- Subject: Re: Monitor Calibration
- From: "=shAf=" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:46:54 -0800
Todd writes ...
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>> I did a very informal test, but you decide if it's relevant. I'm
a
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>> photographer, so I have a Minolta IIIF color meter - very common
to film
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>> and still photographers.
David responds ...
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> You are not the first photographer to attempt to bend such a tool
to this
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> very use, but the results are not admissible....
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> However I do grin whenever I see someone has thought it up
again...
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Ouch, twice stung. Okay, I'm going back under my dark cloth now :-(
I wouldn't feel too bad ... if I had the tool I would have tried
the same thing. Because, you are at least removing human subjectivity
and human adaptation to color perception. Such a tool may even
provide (assuming you can isolate ambient light from its measurement)
meaningful "relative" measurements. That is, while it might be the
inappropriate tool for an "absolute" determination, it will still
provide you with a meaningful difference between setting your monitor
at D50 or D65.
We all have only the tools available to us ... it is only
important to know when they are inaccurate (... and I think David left
us hanging regarding why ...)
shAf :o)