Digital BW, The Print

Oh how right you are. The only excuse for not using instrumentation would be
lack of money.

Richard

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Aparycki
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:01 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: "color" management without instruments

While I don't doubt the experience and qualifications of the various experts

that have been cited, I think it is important to have a calibration device 
for a simple reason that none has mentioned. As time goes on . . . years, or

even months if you are working your system to death, the monitor grows 
tired, your phosphors are not what they used to be (if you don't believe me,

ask your wife of many, many years), and the eye/brain combo is notorious for

lying to us . . . so your "objectivity" could well end up being blind-sided 
subjectivity.

I am sure that those with infinitely more inkjet experience than I could 
make a far superior print, but I would like to see one made on "set" 
equipment today, and then the same repeated (by eye only) on the same "set" 
equipment three or four years hence . . . it won't match.

It is one of the reasons for the zone system in chemical photography . . . 
standardize, standardize, standardize, then you can go out and do what you 
wish (and know what will happen). The calibration available in the digital 
world brings us some similar aspects.

Paul Aparycki


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