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Hi folks,

I'm not sure I should be encouraging such blatant marketing but X-Rite have produced a new web resource called, unsurprisingly, xrite photo. And just for fun they include a color acuity test.

I'm not sure what the balance of the result is between how good one's eyes are and how good one's monitor is but, being considerably closer to 60 than 50, I'm happy enough with a score of 4. Can you beat it?

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1414


edit: but variations in light within my room probably stopped me achieving 0

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Mark Osborne
My life through an iPhone

On an uncalibrated laptop screen:

Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 16-19
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1457

My eyes hurt now...

- Bjorn -

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Street and documentary photographer | Google+ | Twitter | Blog | Tumblr

Leica M9-P (my article on Camera Labs) | Leica D-Lux 5 | 50mm Summilux

I did this a long time ago... can't remember the scoring system, but I got one pair of shades mixed up.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

I did this a while ago at home, and got perfect. Then a couple of months later I did it at uni, and got 4 or something. I'm blaming the monitor I was using at uni, and am going with my best score

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Canon 500D, 18-55mm IS, 55-250mm IS, 50mm f1.8 II, 430exII

Laptop screen:

Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 20-29

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My photostream

Your score: 15
Gender: Male
Age range: 20-29

Netbook Wind U100 screen.

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- Wout -
Nikon D80 with 18-70 DX, 70-300 VR, 35 1.8 DX
Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with 488RC0 midi ballhead
Lowepro CompuRover AW and Nova 200 AW

I got 4 with my uncalibrated laptop screen. I was thinking of calibrating it a few months back, but now its probably more likely Ill make it worse, Im quite happy with that!

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Nikon D5000 and D300 with 12-24mm, 35mm f1.8, 50mm f1.4, 60mm f2.8 Macro, 18-200mm, 17-55mm f2.8 (all Nikon)

I don't think this is efficient...I mean,a score of 4 on a non-calibrated laptop screen?

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Gear: Nikon D80, 18-105mm, 35mm F/1.8, 85mm F/1.8, SB-600
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Here's a thought: an uncalibrated screen is like a sentence with all the words jumbled up where each word can be seen and distinguished from its neighbours and the sentence even appears to make sense. That's the "acuity" part of the test above.

Uncalibrated: The screen has all the words in the right order but calibrated!

Calibrated:.... But the calibrated screen has all the words in the right order!

It's only when you see the same words forming the original text that you get the true picture. Possibly the same is true of computer monitors and photo-editing!

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

Your score: 27
Gender: Male
Age range: 50-59
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

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Nikon D700 & D7100 bodies + Nikkor 300mm F2.8 VR11, 1.7TC, 50mm F1.4G, 16-35mm f/4G VR, 105 F2.8 VR macro, 70-300mm lenses. A couple of filters, Giotto tripod & ballhead. Lowepro Slingshot 302 AW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldcarlos/

Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 40-49
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

Well it looked like it might be fun...

It would be nice if they told you which bit you got wrong...lol

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Uncalibrated laptop screen;

Your score: 10
Gender: Male
Age range: 20-29
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

I don't quite understand the meaning of this, what exactly does it attempt to score? and what does a score of 10 mean?

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It is meant to indicate how well you can distinguish between subtle hues of colour. The score is an error rating, so the higher it is, the worse you are.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

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Hmm, just spent megabucks on a new monitor and my score has improved from 4 to 3.

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.