<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1592730881"><table id="yiv1592730881bodyDrftID" class="yiv1592730881" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td id="yiv1592730881drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div>Hello list!<br><br>I posed the micro color chip question to Dan Kushel, Professor of Documentation and Imaging at Buffalo State College Art Conservation Dept and he provided the following:<br><br>"Yes
that is a problem. There are none around that I know of. But if the
questioner shoots in camera RAW, he can just set the microscope to a
lower magnification, shoot a standard neutral reference (illuminated, of
course, with the same illumination he is using for the higher
magnification), and then just white balance all his shots at once by
synching with the reference shot. We do that here routinely.</div><div><br></div><div>I
think that should do it, unless I am misunderstanding his question.
(You can do the same with a transmission microscope, by taking a
reference shot of the empty illuminated field.)"<br><br>I hope that helps!<br><br><span lang="en-US"><font color="black" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size:13px;"><font face="Verdana">Elizabeth Nunan</font><br>
<font face="Verdana">Associate Conservator</font><br>
<font face="Verdana">Natural Science Collections Conservation</font><br>
<font face="Verdana">American Museum of Natural History</font><br>
<font face="Verdana">212.313.7532</font></span></font></span></font></span><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 10/4/12, Bentley, Andrew Charles <i><abentley@ku.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><br>From: Bentley, Andrew Charles <abentley@ku.edu><br>Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Micro color chips<br>To: "nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" <nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:56 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1592730881">
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<p class="yiv1592730881MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Paul</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1592730881MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Callomon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NH-COLL listserv (nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Micro color chips</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1592730881MsoNormal">Folks,</p>
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<p class="yiv1592730881MsoNormal">I am taking photographs at high magnifications (4-5x macro; field size roughly 6x4 mm) and would like to insert a calibrated grey chip for accurate color reproduction. Commercially available chips I have seen are all printed on paper or
plastic, and at those magnifications the ink surface is so rough that one cannot accurately sample the color from it any more. Does anyone know of a color chip specifically designed for macro/micro work?</p>
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<p class="yiv1592730881MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Paul Callomon</span></b></p>
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