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Ralph Eisenberg

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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2010, 04:52:32 am »

Very helpful thread. I'm going to follow up on it. Bart comes through once again!
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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2010, 06:30:24 pm »

Even if the card is neutral, and that's an 'if', ambient light and thus local colored objects will change the reflected colors, even across a spectrally neutral reflector.

1. WhiBal
2. Babel White target



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Bart

.... and ? which one is the best  ... this graphic tells me nothing
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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2010, 06:33:55 pm »

  ... this graphic tells me nothing
?what do you mean?
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Erick Boileau

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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2010, 06:44:43 pm »

I see 2 lines ... and ?
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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #24 on: October 27, 2010, 06:47:29 pm »

.... and ? which one is the best  ... this graphic tells me nothing

When the goal is to have a reference target that reflects light uniformly across the spectrum, the Babelcolor White Reference does a better job. The WhiBal doesn't do bad either, although it lacks a bit of deep blue and near UV remission, so a white balance may turn out slightly on the cool side because the card looks ever so slightly warm (assuming the lightsource and/or ambient light contain a significant proportion of these short wavelengths to begin with). Both targets do not seem to suffer from fluorescence effects.

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Bart
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Re: neutral white balance cards/tools
« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2010, 01:42:19 am »

thank you
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