Having been a technician in a custom color lab for some 5 years, this topic has always interested me. It actually goes beyond technical limitations. Different people see colors differently- there really is no such thing as perfect color fidelity for this reason. A few years ago I read of a woman in England who could see colors most other people couldn't, due to a genetic condition. She posessed cones that most of us don't. I recall that she said she sometimes had to laugh at friend's outfits- to her eye, the colors obviously didn't match. She sees a world colored very differently than most of us, just because she has an extra set of color receptors. Since she can see a wider portion of the spectrum, (or perhaps more accurately, she can resolve the color spectrum more finely than we can) the researcher posited that she was actually seeing a more "true" rendition of the world than the rest of us! It is possible to get 9 out of 10 people to agree that a print is rendered in "true color", but 100% concensus is impossible. C. --- James Cobb <james@cobb.name> wrote:
Color photography is tough...
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