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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: howardm on February 28, 2016, 08:54:46 am

Title: Halogen as 2nd illuminant source for .dcp
Post by: howardm on February 28, 2016, 08:54:46 am
Since good 'ol incandescent lamps are getting rarer and rarer, how 'appropriate' is it to use a tungsten/halogen (generic, not a Solux or specialty) as my 2nd source when making a dual illuminant profile?  I see the shape of its overall spectrum is very similar but more suppressed in the blues but I'm assuming it's going to do some form of interpolation.

And for that matter, what if you choose sunlight and an F illuminant as the 2nd source?

Yes, I'll be rewatching the Dog's videos on this but wanted to ask here first.  It's been my thinking that new profile is needed when the impinging spectrum is 'significantly' different
Title: Re: Halogen as 2nd illuminant source for .dcp
Post by: digitaldog on February 28, 2016, 10:28:32 am
I see the shape of its overall spectrum is very similar but more suppressed in the blues but I'm assuming it's going to do some form of interpolation.
That's what counts.
Title: Re: Halogen as 2nd illuminant source for .dcp
Post by: Doug Gray on February 28, 2016, 12:50:27 pm
That's what counts.

^This

A halogen lamp is an incandescent lamp. It's main advantage is that the evaporated filament gets removed from the glass and deposited back on the filament so the bulb doesn't dim over time. They usually operate at a slightly higher temperature but it's not significantly higher.