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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Low tech question

2010-05-03 by Michael King

>>Another example where 'calibrate' would be the more accurate description,
not 'linearize'.

Not really, linearization is just a subset of calibration and is the correct
term for this activitiy.
I calibrate my monitor and my printer to give a linear response to an L*
input - that is linearization.

Mike

On 3 May 2010 11:24, Bob Frost <bobfrost@...> wrote:

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> > We'd like our prints to match what we see on the monitor. "Linearization"
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> > is commonly used to describe the step we take to achieve this even if the
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> > final relationship is not technically linear.
>
> Another example where 'calibrate' would be the more accurate description,
> not 'linearize'.
>
> Bob F.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "pr_roark" <roark.paul@... <roark.paul%40gmail.com>>
>
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