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Why D6500K Lighting
This question gets asked a lot. Michael TLV
explains below:
"This is a short explanation on why it is desirable to have the television
calibrated to the NTSC standard of D6500K. Some have talked about comparing the colour of
images at D6500 to the colour of things in real life. And finding out that they are not
the same. Well D6500 is NOT SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT COLOURS IN REAL LIFE. D6500 is the
colour of daylight, yes ... but of course only at a certain time of day.
The easiest reason to describe why D6500 is as follows:
When a film or program is transferred to DVD or broadcast from a studio to your set,
the people like the Program Director, Film Director, Director of Photography, etc. watch
the results of their work on Television Monitors that have been calibrated to D6500K.
Through these monitors, they make all the colour correction decisions on the images that
are displayed. So in the end, if you want to see an image that is as close as possible to
what these people saw in the studio when they transferred the program ... then you need to
have your TV calibrated to D6500K as well.
This is not meant to be real life, it is television. If the director wanted you to see
an image that was tinted Purple, then your D6500K television provides the exact shade of
purple that they wanted you to see. It's a director's intent issue. Not too dissimilar to
watching films in widescreen versus pan & scan.
Hopefully, this provides some clarity on the issue of D6500K."
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