[filmscanners] Re: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

LOL, Having lived and worked in Alfred, New York, about 90 miles south
of Rochester, and living here in Victoria BC in the middle of a rain
forest, I can relate.  In fact, quite honestly we're more at 30% gray
most of the year.

However, snow now seems to be something that occurred in the past.  I
think it snowed three times in the last 3 years here.  Not how it used
to be.

Art

Bruce Kinch wrote:

>>It shouldn't.  The concept of the 18% gray content is based upon an
>>"average daylight scene".
>>
>
> The original 18% gray card came from Kodak. Legend has it that when
> they were developing the first "electric eye" camera (i.e, buil -in
> exposure meter), they put a bunch of well exposed and printed
> pictures into a shredder to determine the "average" tonality. Anyone
> who has spent time in Rochester, where proximity to the Great Lakes
> reduces the number of sunny days drastically, will recognize that 18%
> gray accurately represents how Rochester both looks and feels.
>
> The other side of the gray card is white, because that is how
> Rochester looks the other six months of the year.
>
> Bruce
> --
> Bruce C. Kinch
> Associate Professor of Photography
> The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University



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