Re: New Fuji Film: Astia

[P3D Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

DrT writes:

> I might be ignorant in this subject, but, philosophically speaking, no
> instrument can tell how the colors are actully seen by the eye-brain
> complex.  So, what's the sense of doing "photo-color-metry"?

How does one determine that a halogen light source for a T'd RB is
"whiter" than an incandescent source?  Is this observation taken
solely from experience, or can it be measured and confirmed?  While
not an identical situation, is it not also true that colors can be
quantitatively measured, or at least certain aspects of them--hue,
saturation, luminescence?  Surely there is some objective capability
of measuring a film's accuracy of color rendition.

>I have been puzzled by occassional comments by "fanatic" Kodachrome
>users in SSA folios about the pastel exaggerated colors of Fuji films
>vs. Kodak films when to my eye the colors look real and not exaggerated

I saw an interesting item about color perception in a book recently:
given four different reds reproduced on paper and asked to pick:
"Which is the color of a Coca-Cola can?" few people succeed.  We
are not very good at remembering colors accurately, it seems.  So
Gary's "urban legend" is more than that.

>From time to time I tell my wife:  "Look at this sky.  Doesn't it look
>BLUE, like DEEP BLUE, do your eye?  Would you blame the film if it
>records this sky as DEEP BLUE?  Wouldn't you be disappointed if it
>comes out gray?"

OTOH, I've recently been noticing the sky is not quite as blue as my
mental image of it is.

Paul Talbot


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