2010/2/9 Gerhard Fuernkranz <nospam456@xxxxxx>: > Martin Weberg wrote: >> The readings are different. See attached. >> > > Martin, I assume, after switching between UV-filtered and non-filtered, > you always calibrate the instrument against the calibration tile again, > before taking some readings, do you? Yes, calibration before each reading. > Well, if we'd assume that the filtered light does not contain any energy > below 400nm or 420nm, then basically we would have to discard the > readings for these wavelengths completely, That's what I've been thinking. If the UV filter goes in both directions, which I assume, why do we get reflectance below 400nm? No UV wavelength's are emitted to the paper and no UV wavelength's reaches the measurement device. > I could also imagine that the > instrument possibly applies some kind of regularization in order to > avoid completely unfeasible readings (dominated by noise only) at the UV > wavelengths. Probably. How would the measured colour be affected by setting those UV wavelength bands to zero? Martin Weberg