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Re: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?

2005-06-16 by Steve Kale

And mid grey has 18% reflectance/L*=50 or some other level?


> From: piezobw <piezobw@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:10:17 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> 
> wrote:
>> Jon 
>> 
>> As a matter of interest, where are you setting 50% mid grey, or rather where
>> does it fall out, with your 1.8 gamma and standard ink black and paper white
>> points?
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> 
> Gamma 1.8 is just right to put what we would see as "middle gray" on the scale
> in position 
> 127 or 128. 
> 
> 
> Jon

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