RE: Different White Balance for each Eye?
RE: Different White Balance for each Eye?
- Subject: RE: Different White Balance for each Eye?
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:12:27 -0400
Mike,
Your remark about "cooling" the print with a white point edit is most
interesting.
Do you know Solux lamps? Who doesn't.
It turns out I attended a CORM meeting, last spring, at NIST, and there was
a presentation by the National Art Gallery lighting designer. He pointed to
a study I didn't know about but who basically states that people "prefer" a
3500K CCT light for viewing artwork under -- any artwork, I gather. So, if
there is such thing as a "natural" or innate preference for warm lighting,
to view artwork under, paintings, sculptures, you name it, what does that
mean for viewing inkjet paint reproductions : should we actually fight
people's natural inclination for warm lighting, by throwing "compensating"
blue?
I remember hearing about this Texas senator once, commenting on the use of
English in the bible (he obviously didn't know there was thousands of
translations...), he said : "if english is good enough for Jesus then it's
good enough for Texas". Something like that. I know, weird kind of
reasoning. Politicians. But I thought there was a parallel between your
commenting on the desirability of shifting colors around to bluish, to
compensate for low CCT museum lighting, which is quite low in brightness
terms, btw, typically 32 lux, if I recall from the presentation, and
people's preference for warm lighting to view artwork under. I don't have
the name of that study but it is, apparently, a very well-known fact in
exhibiting art.
Apparently, Solux 3500K halogen lamp has hit right in the middle of that
known people's preference sweet spot.
Best / Roger
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