[argyllcms] Re: What colorchart I should buy?

  • From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:54:27 +0100

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Davide <davide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Pascal de Bruijn ha scritto:
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Davide <davide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all, first of all Happy New Year!
> I just take a look into colorcharts to profile my DSLR camera, and I found
> that Colorchecker SG from X-Rite it's one of the most popular.
> Reading  around  I discovered that Xrite doesn't provide the reference file
> for that chart..
> In "ref" dir of Argyll I found it but I think it doesn't came from Xrite
> directly but it's a user contribution right?
>
> I should consider buy that chart or some one else?
> Free to give me suggestion :)
>
>
> I've had great results using Wolf Fausts "C1" IT8 chart:
>
>   http://www.targets.coloraid.de/
>
> Another nice thing is that Wolf has made his reference files available
> under a Creative Commons license:
>
>   http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/12/16/advances-of-freedom/
>
> I can highly recommend his targets. And of course, 25EUR is hardly painful
> if it somehow does not work out for you.
>
>   Ah yes, I know that site. Since I own a Minolta Dimage scanner too I
> sent a mail some month ago for few question but never got any response.
> For that reason  I discard it
>

Are you sure you sent if to the right email adres? Or maybe his provider's
spam filter (sending HTML mail doesn't help) got over zealous... who
knows...

Wolf has been very responsive to me and others I know... Do try to contact
him again :)

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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