Re: When to use UV filters
Re: When to use UV filters
- Subject: Re: When to use UV filters
- From: Glenn Kowalski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:29:35 -0400
At 12:21 AM -0400 9/21/01, Paul A. DuPont wrote:
Is there some definitive way to know whether a UV filter is needed......
Yes...... by using a "Blacklight " to detect whether the paper is
giving off a heavy UV florescent bloom. This is an issue especially
true of most of the Epson papers as well as the the Fuji
Pictrography papers. If you are using any of these papers for
proofing for publications you will have a real problem when it comes
to getting a good representation as to how the image will appear in
a publication. If your are creating one off "beautifal art".......
mabe UV is not an issue.
Most publication paper stocks are "dead" as far producing
florescence. Recently, Epson has started to pay attention to this
problem by producing its "Premium Glossy Photo Paper" that has a
sticker on it that says "Manufactured 2001" which I assume they have
modified, and the reason for the sticker????? It looks great and
has no florescent bloom.
If you feel you will be looking for a Blacklight soon, there is one
that is lite, portable and battery operated (4 - AA's) .... check
out <www.chromix.com> . It is being sold by Steve Upton as one of
his new "ColorGear" products along with "ColorThink" his color
management software app that is a great "Toolset/Checker Utility"
for managing, repairing and evaluating with 3D graphing of ICC
profiles.
Thanks for the info. I'm glad Epson's doing something about it,
however I'm disappointed that the Spectrocam can't take a UV filter,
although I heard (from this list) the Spectrocam is not as
susceptible to UV problems as most other spectrophotometers. Can
anyone give any details on this? Does the EyeOne have UV filters
available?
I also can't find the blacklight info on the Chromix site. Paul or
Steve, can you give me a direct link?
Thanks.
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Glenn Kowalski
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