Re: Don Hutcheson Interview
Re: Don Hutcheson Interview
- Subject: Re: Don Hutcheson Interview
- From: "Craig Payne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:58:07 -0800
- Organization: Craig Payne
Who are the two manufacturers meeting the IT 8.7 standard?
Thanks,
Craig
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From: "Wolf Faust" <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:32:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: Don Hutcheson Interview
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On 3 Dec 2002 at 22:00, colorsync-users-request@lists wrote:
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> 1. Don Hutcheson Interview (Jeff Harmon)
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> http://www.colorhythm.com/s_resources/donhutcheson_1.html
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Thanks for the link. Now I know whom I have to thank for GTI's nice
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dimming booth ;-) I wish they would make their small "three cabin"
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booth dimmable...
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I like his comments regarding RGB workflow and his experience with
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"scientific" workflows that do not work:-) Totaly agreed ;-) But I
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guess others might think different.
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His info regarding the IT 8.7 standard is clearly wrong. Just because
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most target manufacturers are selling you IT 8.7 targets not meeting
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the standard and having low quality doesn't mean IT 8.7 targets have
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a lower density range or saturation in general. The IT standard
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requires different! Different to his claims the IT 8.7 standard does
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require manufacturers to produce targets that make use of the full
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density/chrominance range of the base material. I have just checked
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some of the HCT targets and found that they do not make use of the
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full density range of the base material either. Actualy, I can show
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IT targets that do have better values than HCT targets. I did test
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all the target manufacturers I know last week and AFAIK there are
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only two manufacturers meeting the IT 8.7 standard. Kodak does not
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make full use of the color gamut of Ektachrome but otherwise seems to
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do a decent job. Most other target manufacturers seem to have never
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read the IT 8.7 standard and so are their targets: low density range,
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>500% over the allowed error limits, faulty reference files and more.
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Even after >20 years in the computer business I am still surprised
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what buyers seem to accept without complaints.
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Wolf Faust Tel: +49-69-5486556
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mailto:email@hidden Fax: +49-69-95409598
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http://www.coloraid.de Mobile: +49-179-6924769
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