Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone know of software that will use an Eye-one display (the version 1 
that was on sale recently) as a simple photometer? It seems like the only 
way to use it is on a monitor running some dedicated software, Match or 
maybe BabelColor, but there may be some other software out there that can 
let the Eye-one hardware act as a simple color photometer, if the firmware 
that senses a screen raster (?) can be bypassed.

Frank

Bob,

Was that the "Eye-one display" (version 1) or ". . . display 2", as they 
named them? Display 2 has that capacity with Match software, but the 
original version has some inherent limitation that cripples it for 
GretagMacbeth's Match software and, apparently, for BabelColor also.

I went to the BasICColor website and it wasn't all that informative, plus 
the trial download is almost 25 Meg, which, with dial-up, is a chunk of 
time, so I held off. Also, their website really wasn't all that well 
designed - no file download size info up-front or even at registration; poor 
listing of features/compatibility without a large(?) .pdf download (which 
wouldn't work for me with Firefox anyway); delayed loading of information 
while pretty graphics loaded instead. All in all, not a way to encourage me 
to spend the time to see if it *happens* to offer better functionality than 
other color programs. I guess they only want to do business with DSL users 
or people who are getting paid to waste their time.

Frank

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I seem to remember reading that BasiColor will allow you to do this; just
checked and the manual says:-

"Clicking on the "Chromaticity Coordinates" radio

button activates the "Measure" button, which allows you to use the
calibration sensor

connected to your computer to measure various sources of light. You can
measure the

true color temperature of your light booth, for example, which often
deviates from the

standard 5000 Kelvin,"


Bob Frost.