Ken Norton wrote:
> I got a seven on my work computer. However, I had to keep moving the window
> back and forth between my two highly-uncalibrated monitors. My only
> screwups were on the bottom scale.
Over a period of time, I've done this on four different (uncalibrated)
monitors, in Ubuntu, XP, OS X, and across my little Fujitsu P7120
laptop, the iMac, the HP LCD monitor, a Dell LCD monitor, and an old
Compaq CRT, I always range around the 40-60 area, this time, 43, on the
laptop. (I'm not sure if the above variables have any relevance. I just
include them for reference).
My areas of fault are mostly in the blue-green to blue area, with bumps
in the reds, and down in the orange-yellows.
I'm not sure if this is down to calibration, or simply that I am one of
the not insignificant percentage of males with partial colour-blindness.
I often wonder at this when people start talking in strong critical
manner about lens colour, white balance and skin-tones, as, while I can
often tell the differences, I find that also quite often it doesn't seem
to mean much to me even then (and certainly it doesn't when I can't).
Large differences...yes, I can see and make changes accordingly then. I
wonder, however, whether the subtleties are completely lost on me.
I think this is what leads me to greater comfort with black-and-white.
Much like when I use a good, prime lens, and *know* it's at least sharp,
I think I am biased towards black and white in my own photography
because I then know that faults in the result are my own (whereas
potential colour-blindness-related faults may be something I simply am
unable to detect).
Basically, I don't have certainty with colour, and I'm rather fond of
certainty. :)
Cheers,
Marc
Noosa Heads, Oz
http://www.parknmeter.com/gallery
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