Sean Reid

Laurence Matson wrote:

No.

As with anything, when you get used to it, if is not much of a bother. He writes an essay: I read it. I have never seen much value in the comparison business, and I am pretty sure Sean does not place as much weight there as others.

I believe that when working with a device, I should try to get the best out of it. There is no point in my comparing it with something else; the next device has to succeed or fail on its own merits and not just by being better than something else.

When I started looking for color calibration systems long ago, my local, knowledgable camera shop in St.Gallen told me that this one system was best. I bought it and tried it out. It was hëll to use. Then many on this forum were all excited about something called Monaco??. Tried that; piece of cräp. Finally, in desperation - after all, there was a pressing need for what I was trying to do - I called a printer friend in Zurich who said he would drop by and calibrate everything, which he did in two hours. I bought that system, which was GretagMacbeth. Never looked back, never changed when one thing after the other was hyped at trade shows.

With cameras, you can set them up for comparison, but invariably one camera or another will be less something or other; and, very often, one will be much better. Sometimes the same camera is very bad at one thing and very good at another. And maybe the tester weights things one way or another. What I prefer is someone, who has a consistent approach and uses each device the same way - Michael Reichmann - or someone who uses it long enough to really figure out what it does best and how well. Sean.

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