DEAR PETER, I was an advertising, fashion, and beauty photographer for 20 years in NYC and, believe me, those clients want the photo and printed page to match the color of their fabrics, make-up or lipstick! I was constantly tweaking my filter pack and sending tests to the lab before some shoots. Then I had the wrestling match with the pre-print houses and printers. Everyone tried to blame the photographer so I had to have my feces together and prove that my film matched as closely as possible the product color (viewed with an over and under Macbeth light box). So, sadly, there are actually jobs where this matters. On a humorous note, I took on a strange still life job?in 1976 I photographed 1776 pills for the Physician?s Desk Reference and, believe me, the doctors who were the publishers impressed me with the liabilities involved with a pill being the wrong color. It was a bear of a job and we were tweaking color with 2 ½ CC filters while praying that the lab was running the same in the afternoon that it was in the morning when we did our tests. Toss in the fact that many of the dyes in the pills fluoresced so they photographed VERY differently than they looked and we had a ball! CHEERS! BOB _____ From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Badcock Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:24 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: OT: Color IQ Test Woohoo, first time perfect score ! Perhaps I missed my calling as a colour consultant. Seriously though, how many people make a living in a job which would need a (close to) perfect level of Colour acuity ? Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information. * Your score: 0 * Gender: Male * Age range: 30-39 * Best score for your gender and age range: 0 * Highest score for your gender and age range: 1324 0 ( Perfect Color Acuity ) regards Peter