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[filmscanners] Re: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?
>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
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Bruce C. Kinch
Associate Professor of Photography
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
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