Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Y2 Filter humbug!
From: Doug Herr <merlin@flyingemu.com>
Date: 25 Jan 2001 04:28:38 -0800

On Wed, 24 January 2001, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 
> red is the opposite of green, not blue, not cyan
> 

Not so.  Cyan is the opposite of red, magenta is the opposite of green, yellow is the opposite of blue.  Red filters darken skies more than yellow because the sky is more cyan than blue.  A little photoshop work will demonstrate this easily.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt
___________________________________________________
The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe
 Better!  Faster! More Powerful!
 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now!
 http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/