[LRflex] Re: Color Consistency

  • From: William Abbott <bill2301@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:41:37 -0800

George,

Thank you for your opinion.

With all due respect, Edwin Land showed that color is constructed in the brain, 
not by the spectrum of light entering our eyes.

Please have a look at "Color Notions":

> https://vimeo.com/11932120

Thanks,

Bill


> On Jan 20, 2015, at 17:25, George Lottermoser <george.imagist@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> I disagree William.
> I've studied color and color illusions since art school in 1964;
> and taught color theory at Columbia College Chicago.
> 
> Our eyes compensate to give us the "perception" of consistency across a scene.
> But the camera and other instruments such as spot meters, color meters, 
> reflection densitometers, etc. will reveal the vast discrepancies which our 
> eyes will "overlook."
> 
> a note off the iPad, George
> 
> On Jan 20, 2015, at 6:24 PM, William Abbott <bill2301@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The camera does not have color consistency across a scene, but our eyes do.
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