Datacolor User to User Support Group.

PFP and the DC spectro are indeed fine products given their price.
However, I do think that it would be worthwhile to spend some thought
cycles on how the process can be made easier.

While you David may be confident in your patch reading accuracy vs
speed, I know that there are plenty of us that aren't. I am not really
able to read one patch per second, and feel that I didn't over step an
edge somewhere along the way.

Obviously someone over there at ColorVision was thinking along those
same lines and decided to include a patch reading guide in the latest
version of the product. Maybe the current DC spectro can't be made
into a strip reader without increasing the price to something much
more like the current i1 products, I don't know. However, I do know
that you can certainly constrain the size of the patch target to a
consistent block size as long as the paper itself is of at least A4
dimensions, and therefore putting centering detents into the guide is
possible. For very little additional cost. 

I certainly would have greater confidence in the accuracy of my
readings if I knew for sure that the spectro was really centered over
every patch, and not crossing any edges.

Derek

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
>
> 
> In a message dated 11/10/07 1:08:22 PM, psandham@... writes:
> 
> 
> > I am VERY HAPPY with the current product (DC1005) and have created
> > over 100 profiles for almost every paper on the market using the
1000 patch
> > method (Color w/BW). I'm aiming to be the first person to read 500,000
> > patches to see if I will get a prize!
> > 
> 
> You may well be the first person *outside of the ColorVision* to
reach that 
> mark, but trust, me, you won't be the first person to get there... 
<G> My 
> level of usage of our spectro is not typical of any end user, but it
does point 
> out how much easier to use the DC1005 is than any previously
available patch 
> reader... if I measured as many patches with a ColorMouse, Digital
Swatchbook, 
> ColorTron, etc... I would have seized up with carpal tunnel syndrome
long ago. 
> Even the Pulse and EyeOne, when used in patch at at time mode (as I
am often 
> required to use them) are not as easy to use as the DC1005. What it
does, it 
> does well.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> Datacolor
> CDTobie@...
> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
> 
> 
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