Re: Ooops - D65 != D65 ???
Re: Ooops - D65 != D65 ???
- Subject: Re: Ooops - D65 != D65 ???
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:45:11 -0600
- Thread-topic: Ooops - D65 != D65 ???
On 6/20/07 7:27 AM, "email@hidden" wrote:
> Older versions of our software used
> to offer both D65 and 6500K. This was though to be confusing to many users
> (lots of tech support calls asking which to use and why). Since one can't
> really
> calibrate to D65 (only to little x, little y values from it; a monitor does
> not emit a D50 or D65 spectrum)) the choice was to eliminate the D target
> values, and leave the K target values.
Since many colors of white can correlate to 6500K and D65 is an exact
description of a color, seems like tossing Kelvin and leaving a standard
illuminant makes far more sense.
A monitor that really did emit 6500K would be pretty hot to the touch no?
<G>
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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