> As Jeff said, outside of scientific work (and I'd ad advertising) colour > accuracy was never a critical part of photography. Sure, and I was just agreeing with him. :-D > and this is where our memory kicks in to make the corrections needed to > accept the 2D limited tonal range image as a representation of a real event > :-) the Memory activity is something not to be dismnissed.. And as such you can use your memory to color correct the pictures. :-) > > Well, all this to say that I guess that perfection is what the > > photographer wants and not what is more precise. > > medical, geological, forensic, insurance, record, scientific all need close > accuracy, others are free to render as they wish Sure but those are using photography as meter, the photo is a mean to achieve a measure not the objective. Sure it is very useful, but I usually call this imaging and photography. But maybe I am being somewhat purist here. :-/
