Life's hard on engineers sometimes. <g> I'm not an engineer, but I feel
your pain. At least now your have some pretty definitive information.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've always considered the color quite accurate but now I have some minor
> doubts. My wife wanted to go shopping for tile for the kitchen
> backsplash. She asked if I'd take a picture of the (predominantly) gray
> quartz counter top (but also speckled throughout with bits of white, black,
> tan, very pale yellow and browns). To her that meant I'd walk in, take a
> shapshot in the kitchen and 5 minutes later produce a print that you could
> lay on the counter and not be able to tell that it was there. Then she'd
> know if the backsplash tile was right for the countertop.
>
> I did indeed try something like that and disabused myself that it was a
> simple task in about 3 minutes. Daylight was streaming in from the left
> rear (patio sliding doors) and tungsten from above... ugly colors. I
> decided that I needed to use flash and simply overpower the tungsten.
> Overpowering the tungsten was easy. But the on-camera flash created a huge
> reflection from the glossy quartz. Time to get the flash off-camera... go
> find the Canon off-camera flash cord (which also works with Oly) and get a
> seemingly good color image. Wait. I want to lay this on the counter and
> not be able to see it. The pattern on the print needs to be exactly the
> same size as the real pattern. Back to the drawing board. Lay a ruler on
> the counter to measure off 7" to make a 5x7" print. Get out stepladder to
> get exactly the right distance for 7" to exactly fill the frame. Take test
> shot. Hey, it looks great on the screen. Now time to make a print. I've
> always assumed my HP printer with HP ink and HP paper makes good and fairly
> accurate color. Well, that ain't so... or is it? Seems I can't carry my
> 24" Dell flat screen into the kitchen to actually compare the colors.
> Adjust color, make print, adjust color, make print,.... etc. Some 13
> prints later I had one you could lay on the counter and you would have a
> hard time seeing it.
>
> Believe me, this was not a scientific process. Try it sometime.
>
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