Thanks for your advice and sharing your experiences. I'll have a look for spectrophotometers - to better handle different film stocks. And for sure it needs to work automatically from remote. The X-810 manual lens punch mechanism is indeed a nightmare. y.s. Thomas Kumlehn PIXEL PARTNER (C) Digital Film Services http://www.PixelPartner.de mailto:ThomasKumlehn@xxxxxxxx --- Wolf Faust <mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > On 21 Mar 2006 at 9:26, Thomas Kumlehn wrote: > > > Did any of you already use an X-Rite 810 colour densitometer, just > capable > > of reading Neg densities in RGB ? > > Yes. The X-Rite densitometers are often used by recorders for > calibrating the machines... > > > Or can anyone point me to a book or web source how to convert the X-810 > > RGB-densities to CIE-XYZ space as needed for CMS. I need the matrix > > coefficients or the primaries vectors for the color filters and light > > source used in the X-810. > > If you can't get such data in a good accuracy, I would recommend you > measure the used negative film using a spectrometer in order to get > the XYZ data. Than use this data for calculating a density->XYZ > conversion for use with the X-Rite 810, but this conversion would be > material specific. So you would need to do this for all > dyes/materials measured. For slide films and photo paper you might > use the XYZ and density data published in reference files of IT8 > targets to calculate a density<->XYZ conversion. > > > The good thing about it - used X-810's are availlable and much cheaper > than > > color spectrometers. > > When measuring the calibration strips of my recorders the X-Rite > device already showed visible faults in the gray axis wich is why I > replaced the X-Rite devices here with a more stable spectrometer for > linearizing the recorder LUTs. Don't missunderstand me, the X-Rite > devices are reliable and have always worked here within the specified > tolerances. The problem was, that while you measure the recorders > calibration strip, the measurement of the X-Rite devices often > changes slightly. Even if a change of 0.01 in density doesn't sound > much, such a change can become visible in the gray axis. At least the > Kodak LVT/Durst Rhino software doesn't "smooth" the X-Rite readings > well enough to avoid sudden visible jumps in the gray axis. > > So, if you use the 810, I would recommend a strong smoothing setup of > the approximation used in argyll in order to compensate the > measurement shifts of the device. This might avoid a visible shift or > jump in the profile. Once you have setup the density->XYZ conversion > I see no reason why the 810 should not work. But it must me a > nightmare to read several hundred or even thousand patches using the > device... > > -- > Wolf Faust Tel: +49-69-5486556 > mailto:wfaust@xxxxxxxxx Fax: +49-69-95409598 > http://www.coloraid.de Mobile: +49-179-6924769 > > > ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de