Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Vampire D wrote:

> What about durability?  I know the pro version of the LensAlign is suppose to be considerably more durable.  From the forums I participate in on Photography, I have seen a few people mention about needing the longer ruler for some lenses, but I suspect it is a very small minority.

Durability... well, we designed it to be as durable as we reasonably could; the decals that provide the lens target and ruler ruled lines are probably the weakest elements, and they are pretty durable. And we chose them over less exacting, but more durable direct printing methods because they offer a degree of precision and sharpness otherwise unavailable. 

To see about longer ruler functions, I put a 24" steel rule on top of the ruler built into LensCal, and held it in place with a couple of rubber bands. Not elegant, but it served the purpose. But I was surprised to see how much less effective the finely ruled lines on the steel rule were at detecting the focal zone than the extra fine high contrast lines printed on the LensCal rule. So I wouldn't actually trade the extra fine, extra sharp high contrast printing for some other type of solution.
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> It looks interesting, it has been on my list of things to do for a while now.
> Can you send me the reviewers guide so I can have a look at that, or point me to where I can find it.

If you have a publication or website that you are assigned to review it for, contact me off list with that information. We don't distribute the reviewer's guide publicly, as it has URLs for downloading photos and  marketing materials not publicly available. Sorry!

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...