Black is black
I want my baby back
It's gray, it's gray
Since she went away, Ooh-Ooh
What can I do
'Cause I-I-I-I-I'm feelin' blue.....
Tom C.
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:52:48 +1000
On 13 Dec 2005 at 16:40, Tom C wrote:
> According to the link I displayed, he thought Provia had a yellowish
cast. I
> wonder if the power of suggestion and the makining of a comparison do
not come
> into play.
>
> With wine it seems, the suggestion of the label or someone else's
comments can
> easily influence others (and myself to taste those very same flavors).
>
> Possibly comparing film A to film B, neither of which may be neutral,
and
> both of which may tend towards opposite directions in the spectrum, one
can
> reach a conclusion that is different from what would otherwise be held.
>
> Of course subjectivity may indeed be the primary difference.
It's worse than that in the page you cited, in the testing methodology
there is
no indication of how the scanner was colour calibrated or assessed to begin
with so the "RAW scan" has an unknown colour bias to start with.
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
