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From: John D'Errico <derrico@pixel.kodak.com>
Subject: Re: End to End Color Calibration
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In article <Cx7o31.HnK@nvl.army.mil> David Singer, singer@hobbes writes:
>        We are trying to get some sort of handle on Color
>calibration with eventual TV display. It looks like there
>are some standards in TV and Photography so that starting
>with an scene or photo, one could have some degree of con-
>sistancy in the electronic signal. However, it looks like
>when displayed on an output moniter it is dependent on an
>eyeball subjective setting matched to the standard color
>pattern. Has any work been done with making the output
>more standard? (Maybe a generated signal and photodetectors
>with filters actually looking at the monitor.) The idea being 
>that from day to day and maybe even from monitor to monitor, 
>two observers would see the same thing within some margin of 
>error. Or is this error going to be really large? Does anyone 
>know of any work in this area?


Eastman Kodak's Colorsense package included a monitor calibration
puck you stuck on the face of your monitor. I do not believe this
package is being sold anymore however. Daystar has just recently
come out with something called Colormatch. It too has some variety
of monitor calibration.

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John R. D'Errico
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Eastman Kodak Company
derrico@pixel.kodak.com
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