Re: [APML]: PJM color balance

["Tom Krajci" <krajcit@det5wg57.barksdale.af.mil>]

> From:          Robert Hoyle <rhoyle@earthlink.net>

> ...But
> color balance in printing?  That's another matter.  No matter what I did
> (and I did a lot) on printing the M51 shot, I could not get the PJM
> print to balance properly.  If the sky was made a nice black, the galaxy
> had a strong magenta hue.  If the galaxy was made the proper color
> (yellow-whites in center and some arms, cyans and some pink regions in
> arms, etc), the sky has a strong greenish tint.  

> Do you think I just got a strange batch of PJM (again) -- it came from a
> professional photo shop here in town?  

I shoot unhypered PJM and I've also noticed a tendency 
to print magenta.  The lab I use has to pull a large amount of 
magenta out to get a neutral sky background.  I don't think you had 
just one squirrely roll, I think it's one of the traits of PJM.

Tom Krajci

PS.  Robert Hoyle, eh?  Didn't you write a book of game rules a few 
years back?  ;-)

Capt Tom Krajci
B-52 Intelligence Officer
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