RE: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets

["Frank Paris" <marshalt@spiritone.com>]

I worked very hard at getting my monitor and printer calibrated so that I
could judge fairly accurately what the print is going to look like from what
it looks like on the monitor.

Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Mark Thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:00 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Kodak Color Input Targets
>
>
> Is there such a thing as a correct monitor? ;-)  I don't fuss
> much about my
> monitor's accuracy (apart from getting the overall gamma about right),
> because the final destination of most of my stuff is the printer.  So I
> compare the print to the projected slide, and also show it to a few other
> folk for comments, and therein is my main method of calibration!  Mostly,
> the monitor is just a vague guide to me - I would much rather believe the
> RGB values I see from my eyedropper than what my eyes might be seeing in
> the phosphors. (..But I am often told I have strange methodologies...!)
>
> MT
>