Re: Metamerism
Re: Metamerism
- Subject: Re: Metamerism
- From: Grant Symon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:29:47 +0100
email@hidden wrote:
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> I would disagree with this statement. The colors on the monitor are not
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> formed by, nor influenced in any way by the lights used to view the print.
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> This is *not* an example of metamerism, IMO. The observation that a single
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> print looks different under two different lighting conditions is normal,
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> and
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> unrelated to metamerism.
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Tell that to the Epson 2000p users whose image's skintones are sallow and
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yellow under one light source and ruddy red under another. They will dismiss
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your expertise and exacting terminology with a flick of the wrist.
As a photographer I've always lived with metamerism....as has everyone else
in the world. In everyday life nobody pays the least bit of attention to the
phenomenon. No one, when looking at a movie, notices that the relationship
between two colours changes when the source light changes temperature and
yet....their relationship does change. Equally...light a scene which
encompasses the full visible spectrum with a red light and then with a blue
light and the relationship between the colours will change, as each colours
absorbs and reflects the two colours differently. I'm used to this, but it
is of course when the differences become 'extreme' that problems arise. This
appears to be the case with some of the Epson printers and their associated
inks and papers. We should remember though, that the effect of metamerism is
abundant.
Grant (Paris)
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