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Re: Doing soemthing stupidly wrong with i1 spot metering?

2004-05-03 by Roy Harrington

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale" <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> I am thoroughly baffled by the following.  I am trying to take spot measurements with a 
> Gretag i1 Photo device (as part of taking a look at making curves for QTR).  I am using 
the 
> Measure Tool (part of Profilemaker Pro 4.1.5).  When I use Spot I with XYZ selected as 
my 
> colour space I am getting weird Y values, eg 55 for the 100 step wedge.  If I measure the 
> 21 strip using chart and run it through Roy's calc-density I get sensible Y and density 
> values, eg 2.62 for Y at 100, from the same patch.  Am I just missing something obvious 
> here or is the i1 on the blink?

Hi Steve,

It works fine on mine, but I never really use "Y".   Are you sure you are
looking at the right column -- the first measurement shows up in th
Reference column and all subsequent values are in the Sample column
unless you manually switch back.

Roy

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