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Re: [Digital BW] Photo Rag 308 color--warmer than EEM?

2003-11-21 by Barrett Benton

Not to dispute your findings, but from my experience I'ave always 
found HPR to be at least a bit warmer than EAM/EEM, at least to 
the eye.

- Barrett

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"mrjerryjm" <jerry.mccollum@c...> wrote:
> Something didn't sound right about Hahnemühle Photo Rag 
308 being 
> regarded as "warmer" than Epson Enhanced Matte, so I 
measured new, 
> unused surfaces of each in Lab mode.
> 
> Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308:  L 104.7   a -2.36   b 2.71
> Epson Enhanced Matte:      L 103.8   a -3.20   b 3.75
> 
> Hahnemühle Photo Rag is both "brighter" and "whiter" (more 
neutral) 
> than Epson Enhanced Matte.
> 
> Measured with a calibrated Color Savvy Spectrophotometer. 
Perhaps 
> someone else with a spectrophotometer or color densitometer 
cares to 
> validate this observation?
> 
> Jerry McCollum

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