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An irreverent look at the Quattro vs Merrill thing....

Started Aug 14, 2017 | Discussions thread
tagscuderia
tagscuderia Senior Member • Posts: 1,957
Re: An irreverent look at the Quattro vs Merrill thing....

xpatUSA wrote:

tagscuderia wrote:

That it should... I'm afraid that my technical lexicon fails me but I'm sure that you comprehend what I'm hinting at (?);

All part of the forum game, eh? People use their own words to describe stuff and we get to guess what they meant . .

Certainly is, I try to be good but I guess that my school report would read "could/should do better"

Phil Service reported a 2EV difference between the top and bottom layers with Merrill (white illuminant, no specifics on that) whilst Quattro was/is pretty uniform with a 0.5EV deviation; he reckoned that Quattro should have a 0.5EV DR advantage due to this but for whatever reason... it just doesn't quite work out like that. SIGMA appear to have very effective highlights tint/colour correction for Merrill!

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