Re: filmscanners: OptiCal correction/retraction

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

Comments interspersed:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Fernandez" <bill_sub@billfernandez.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Cc: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: OptiCal correction/retraction


| Hi Maris--
| 
| I'm still learning like everyone else ;-).
| 
| I've been happily using PhotoCal for the past year but just upgraded 
| to OptiCal  so that I could take my color management to the next 
| level of control.

Good!  I can't justify the expense yet.  My next purchase would probably be 
Colorvision's DoctorPro - I have WiziWYG for printer profiles, and DoctorPro 
could tweak them to near-perfect I think.

| The Solux bulbs send approx 4700K light out the front, which is much 
| closer to a monitor's whitepoint than reguluar halogen lights.  It 
| uses a special reflector that lets some of the wavelengths at the red 
| end of the spectrum pass through, so you get the best results if 
| you're lighting fixture doesn't reflect them back into your viewing 
| space.

It doesn't - it's a hooded desk lamp that shines only on the desk, though 
partially on the secondary monitor of a dual monitor system.

| 
| --Bill
| 
| 
| At 4:54 PM -0600 8-11-01, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
| >Thank you for the report, Bill.  Frankly, I very much questioned 
| >what you had said but had no solid information with which to dispute 
| >it.
| >
| >I use PhotoCal myself (I'm an amateur) and I'm very satisfied with 
| >my Sony Trinitron (Dell-branded) monitor.
| >
| >I have a Solux desklamp and I find it provides me with accurate 
| >renditions of my prints so as to compare them with the screen.
| >
| >Maris