Datacolor User to User Support Group.

David,

How do you guys evaluate the intensity of your lighting?

The reason I ask is that I have never done studio work as most of my
images are in natural light outside so I do not possess this experience.

Does it mean that I need to get an incident light meter to measure it
and would this thing give me K units?

Thanks for the explanation,

Pierre

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 11/4/06 11:47:57 AM, ve2caz@... writes:
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> > How does the target temperature relate to the lighting conditions of
> > the room you work in?
> > 
> 
> It does not relate directly to the color temperature of your ambient 
> lighting; as lighting gets dimmer, your color cones become less
effective, and your B&
> W rods do more. The rods see quite blue, so to compensate the
monitor must be 
> more yellow. Thats why the more yellow 5000k is used in low ambient
light 
> conditions, and 6500k is used in moderate ambient light conditions.
So choose your 
> monitor whitepoint based not on your ambient light's color, but on its 
> intensity.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>