Viewing lights, art and photography
Viewing lights, art and photography
- Subject: Viewing lights, art and photography
- From: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:01:00 +0200
On viewing light corresponding to display light etc.
With increasing numbers of photographers using color management
solutions for theitr digital workflow in smaller shops etc there could
be a shift towards 4000-3000K display conditions that are not really
covered with M1 viewing light booths, M1 spectrometer standards and
profile creation software that doesn't really go below D50 but a
Tungsten setting. I can understand that the packaging industry likes to
refine M1 standards but is an in general declining graphic industry
defining here what is most urgent?
Solux lamps are now used more often for viewing proofs etc, the UV
content of the 4700K version should correspond more than the usual
fluorescent lamp solutions do where almost all UV is converted to
visible light. On the other hand the Solux lamps are used more often by
photographers that will display their prints to halogen light at lower
color temperatures including Solux lamps . Solux changed the 4100 and
lower K models so their ouput is low on UV now to reduce fading of art
even more. Looks like the choices of viewing light have to be made
carefully too when using Solux lamps, generations and color temperature
models vary. UV-cut framing glass can not be ignored either.
There is a better understanding of FBA effects in color management
especially their higher color inconstancy to changing light. FBA papers
on average are more prone to light and gas fading. Their dependence on
UV light also exposes them to the most fade active kind of light. There
is a tendency now to avoid FBA papers in photography and art for the
reasons sketched. To define/improve UV content in viewing lights etc may
be wasted time for that part of the market. Papers without FBA and
UV-cut display illumination is the goal there.
Display conditions for photography will change soon enough again. As I
understand it the LCD, E-paper, Electro Wetting, OLED, displays will all
have different native color temperatures and right now few have a CM
integrated. There will be reflective, transmissive and hybrid displays.
Some with backpanel lighting, other ones are self emitting.
With standards for 6500K - 5000K +/-UV more or less defined it may be
time to cover lower color temperatures with standards and features in
hardware and software to cover the full range. Tungsten is just one
choice in that range and not always available. I did read that some
Canons have 4000K optimised printer profiles.
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Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst
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