> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/07 Tue PM 11:29:11 GMT > To: "Pentax Discuss" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: color profiles ICC for *ist DS/L > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith McGuinness" > Subject: Re: color profiles ICC for *ist DS/L > > > > > > > > Nothing has colour. Objects simply emit or reflect different bits > > of the electromagnetic spectrum. > > > > A "white" object will appear red under red light, blue under blue > > light, and so on. > > > > Colour is what we (and other enabled creatures) perceive after > > stimuli received by the eye have been processed by the eye and brain. > > > > Part of that processing "corrects" for the colour balance of the > > ambient light. That's why cameras need white balance settings > > (tungsten, daylight, etc.). The human eye/brain does "auto", > > usually without us noticing. > > > Sounds like the beginning of a semantics debate to me. > I'll sit this one out. > > William Robb >
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