Digital BW, The Print

just a thought

You could make 2 fair sized, all black prints, one matte, one glossy.
Put them side by side
light them as you think appropriate.

You could compare them by eye, by light meter, or with a camera.

You would see and measure the paper/coating/ink differences along with
the surface effects, but the sphere measurement would have the same
problem.

Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> wrote:
> I thought the point of this thread was that because matte paper had
a more
> diffuse reflection than "photo" paper that a measurement (stress:
> measurement) of the dMax of that paper was fundamentally biased
because of
> the typical measurement device used (0/45 geometry).