Re: What's my status.
Re: What's my status.
- Subject: Re: What's my status.
- From: "tlianza" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:48:58 -0500
Status A density is used for measurement of photographic Positive materials
Status M is used for measurement of color negative densities....
Tom Lianza
Technical Director
Sequel Imaging Inc.
25 Nashua Rd.
Londonderry, NH 03053
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lithgow" <email@hidden>
To: "Richard Millott" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: What's my status.
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Richard Millot wrote on 27/02/02
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> At 10:56 15/02/2002 +1100, Tom wrote:
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> >Its always confused me why there are so many "standards" to
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> measure density.
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> >There's status A, status E, status T etc. Can anyone explain
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> the history of
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> >this and point me to information on the differences?
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> The Spectrocam prefs allow the following choices, and as Michael Lithgow
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> mentioned, with the default being Status I:
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> Status A
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> Status M
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> Status T
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> Status E
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> Status I
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> and DIN
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> I would also like to hear from anyone who might be able to shed some
light
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> onto
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> what can be expected from these different choices?
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> The Spectrocam users manual is very vague, suggesting that the Status is
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> country,
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> continent or market specific!!!!
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Regards
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> Richard
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I am attempting to answer my own original question a bit here but since
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first posting my query I have learnt that Status E is for European inks, T
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for American (I don't know why T either, perhaps simply because the letter
A
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was already taken by Status A). I know that A and M are the common status
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types for conventional densitometers as opposed to Spectrophotometers and
I
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can only guess that I stands for international and possibly is used by the
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Japanese print industry hence the default in the Spectrocam as the most
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common use may be reading inkjet patches. DIN is the German standards
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organisation so probably doesn't relate to most needs.
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Having worked all this out, possibly incorrectly, my tests show it doesn't
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make a pinch of difference in relation to reading inkjet patches as the
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readings are in Lab and the Status choice only seems to effect the Status
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density reading (sounds a little too obvious doesn't it). However this
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reading is only visible if chosen in the Spectrocam preferences under the
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Colour Space settings.
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Hopefully this post will encourage the wiser among us to share their
wisdom
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on the subject.
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Michael Lithgow
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Michael Lithgow Photography & Laboratory
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177 East Boundary Road
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East Bentleigh
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Victoria 3165
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Australia
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Ph./Fax 61 3 95794088
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