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[OM] Re: [OT] Digital and the color purple

Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Digital and the color purple
From: "Ian Nichols" <ian.a.nichols@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:25:44 +0000
On 11/03/06, Richard Lovison <rlovison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The company claims that digital cameras have
> a difficult time reproducing the color purple and challenges you to take
> an
> image of their website page and compare their page to what you see on your
> camera LCD.  I was up to the challenge so with WB set to auto on my E-1
> with
> no lights on in the room I took the shot.  Sure enough my LCD preview gave
> a
> very blue image compared to what was on my computer monitor.


CRTs are a bit odd, from a colour temperature POV.  They can look perfectly
OK to the human eye, regardless of how the rest of the room is lit, but if
you photograph one, you need to use a hight colour temp. white balance.

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