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: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:38:36 -0400
Mike :
Right. If the viewing conditions are known ahead of time, why not go for it
and build it into the profile.
Why not?
Dramatic difference in the color appearance of the prints? Better? In your
opinion?
Best / Roger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Strickler [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: 12 août 2010 21:48
> To: Roger Breton
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Different White Balance for each Eye?
>
> Having made that remark I don't bother much with this myself as I assume
> that all sorts of lighting will be used for art prints and D50 is more or
less in
> the middle of the possible range between halogens and skylight. More or
> less. The eye will adapt to the ambient light enough to take acre of the
rest. I
> view final results in all three (even sometimes tossing the Solux into the
mix)
> and if, after time for the eyes to adapt, it looks good under all these
it's fine.
> In Profilemaker one can balance an output profile toward all sorts of
lighting,
> and that can be dangerous. Still, if one knows that only gallery halogens
will
> be used for display I say, why not go for it and dial it into the profile.
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Roger Breton wrote:
>
> > 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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