Digital BW, The Print

Jack,

You can use the campanding calculator on Bruce Lindbloom's site.  
http://www.brucelindbloom.com/

If you spectro works with QuickRead, that will read out both in Lab and 
density values.  It used to be a free download at www.icctools.com, but 
the link doesn't seem to be working anymore.  I'm not sure if it is 
still available or not.  

I'm sure there are other utilities that provide both Lab and density 
values, but at least the Companding Calculator will work, even though 
it isn't as convenient as QuickRead.

Lou


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jack Winberg 
<jack.winberg@v...> wrote:
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> The ColorVision spectrocolorimeter I am beta testing reads out in LAB 
> values.  I would like to utilize this to evaluate the degree of 
> blackness of prints.  "L" valueThe scale is 0 to 100, 0 being black, 
> and 100 being white.
> 
> Can anyone come up with a conversion to the density values I see 
> bandied about in this list?
> 
> Thanks very much......................... Jack Winberg
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