On 24 Aug 2003 at 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >For instance, have a look
> >at the IEC 61966-8:2001 standard ("Multimedia colour scanners").
> >
> I'd really like to read the IEC 61966-xx, unfortunately it is nowhere
> available for free download. And all sites which do have the document
> available, appearently want money for it. And CHF 125,-- for 38 pages
> (-> IEC 61966-8) is IMO really an extortionate price. So I guess the
> complete IEC 61966 series would cost a 4-digit amount :-( Instead of
> spending so much mony for paper, I think I would rather buy a
> spectrophotometer, and/or a few more of your targets ;-)
Yes... color stuff is not cheap. I bought some of the DIN 5033-x
standards (basicly matches CIE 15.2). Some of these 5033 standards
only consist of one page. Costs: ~23.50 Euro plus shipping. Not bad
for a single page without much content. The IEC standard prices at
NPES seem rather low. Still my bank account is hurting :-) But than,
some standard organisations do rely on the income from these papers
and sure you do not only pay for the plain paper the text is printed
on...
Please do not get a wrong impression and expect too much from the IEC
standard: The IEC standard seems mainly good for determine the
spectral characteristics of the scanner wich than should help
adjusting the colors of the scanner for certain materials. The
standard does not deliver you spectral images. So the solution seems
somewhere in the middle between old RGB based solutions and full
spectral imaging.
The best step surely would be spectral imaging of some sort. But I
disagree that this has to be expensive. Some methods seem to be based
on normal hardware taking several shots of the same object using
different rather normal filters. Everything else is software...
In neither case I know of any cheap working easy solutions you could
use right now. Would be interesting to hear from one...
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