I just made my first print with a no-holds-barred Argyll profile
(3680 patches pre-conditioned from an earlier profile, ultra
quality). It was a test sheet I've just finished making with a few
of my own favorite photos and some chart-type things.
And there's only one word to describe it.
WOW!
I mean, it's not just a question of being ``close enough'' or ``I
don't think anybody'll notice the difference'' or anything like
that. It's just /right./ The grays aren't just ``pretty darned
close to neutral,'' they /are/ neutral. Not warm, not cool, not
greenish or purplish or anything else--simply neutral. You can
(just barely, of course) distinguish between each and every 1%
step in gray. Color fidelity is better than my own eyes can
resolve.
And the detail! I've seen contact prints that didn't look half as
good. Not a hint of noise. Contrast isn't even a question;
everything simply has the right value, so the contrast can't help
but be exactly right.
Even the artifacts on a Grainger Rainbow are almost on a par with
those on my laptop's display. I didn't think that was possible.
Thank you, Graeme, and David (for helping me get the i1 to work
with Argyll), and everybody else who helped make Argyll the
absolutely amazingly incredible tool it is.
(And, of course, a bit of thanks to the Greytag MacBeth people for
making the Eye-One...though it sure would be nice if y'all would
open up the specs so people like me didn't have to jump through
nearly so many hoops.)
Cheers,
b&
