As my eyes get older, I find that my ability to judge subleties of color has diminished and I wonder if a particular light source for viewing might help. This problem is true whether I am trying to judge the effect of a particular developer on a b&w paper tone, the degree of a selenium tone or I also print vast quantities of color prints for my commercial clients. The problem is especially true when I am tired and printing late into the evening. I have tried warm, cool and color corrected (like they use on light tables) flourescents as well as regular incandescent and the new "full spectrum" incandescents without much help. Today I delivered some color prints to an architect client that looked great under my full spectrum incandescents, but looked way to warm in his office, which was lit with coolwhite flourescents and daylight. This never used to happen to me.
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