Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] Grey day
From: "Johnny Deadman" <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 06:21:22 +0100

> I'd like to know why the reference is 18% gray, rather than, say, 50% gray,
> which seems more logical.
>
> And how is 18% gray defined?  Does this mean a random pattern of 18 black dots
> for every 82 white dots, or what?  Most of the gray cards I see look as though
> they are actually more than 18% gray, but I'm not sure what the formal
> definition of this is.

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