Perhaps you'll find yourself here... and perhaps not. I think a good
monitor is key as well as good color vision. Some of the differences in
that test are very subtle.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Red-green_color_blindness>
Chuck Norcutt
montsnmags@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ken Norton wrote:
>> I got a seven on my work computer. However, I had to keep moving the window
>> back and forth between my two highly-uncalibrated monitors. My only
>> screwups were on the bottom scale.
>
> Over a period of time, I've done this on four different (uncalibrated)
> monitors, in Ubuntu, XP, OS X, and across my little Fujitsu P7120
> laptop, the iMac, the HP LCD monitor, a Dell LCD monitor, and an old
> Compaq CRT, I always range around the 40-60 area, this time, 43, on the
> laptop. (I'm not sure if the above variables have any relevance. I just
> include them for reference).
>
> My areas of fault are mostly in the blue-green to blue area, with bumps
> in the reds, and down in the orange-yellows.
>
> I'm not sure if this is down to calibration, or simply that I am one of
> the not insignificant percentage of males with partial colour-blindness.
> I often wonder at this when people start talking in strong critical
> manner about lens colour, white balance and skin-tones, as, while I can
> often tell the differences, I find that also quite often it doesn't seem
> to mean much to me even then (and certainly it doesn't when I can't).
> Large differences...yes, I can see and make changes accordingly then. I
> wonder, however, whether the subtleties are completely lost on me.
>
> I think this is what leads me to greater comfort with black-and-white.
> Much like when I use a good, prime lens, and *know* it's at least sharp,
> I think I am biased towards black and white in my own photography
> because I then know that faults in the result are my own (whereas
> potential colour-blindness-related faults may be something I simply am
> unable to detect).
>
> Basically, I don't have certainty with colour, and I'm rather fond of
> certainty. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
> Noosa Heads, Oz
> http://www.parknmeter.com/gallery
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|