Is it Gray or Grey?

[PhotosbyChuck]

Originally Posted by r_fredrick_smith

They very well may both be gray, just not the same shade of gray. One gray is not warmer than the other or cooler. If something is gray it means that it has equal parts of RGB. So the gray represented by r128,g128,b128 is gray and the gray represented by r64,g64,b64 is also a shade of gray. One is lighter than the other (not cooler or warmer). Cooler or warmer would mean that the rgb values were not equal. So I don't believe you are using these terms in a way that avoids a certain amount of confusion.

Yep, absolutely with you on the perfectly even grey...but I don't see that. The gray varies...for example in the 3rd block on the image balanced against white, I see it as 192, 188, 183. As I said above, it leans toward red. I think that's a consistent use of "warm" to describe the grey. Given it's age, maybe your card faded a bit inconsistently. Actually, if it's that old that's pretty good. Photographs that old would have shifted much more.

Meanwhile the white square on the same image is 240,240,240. So, the CWB against the white was dead on!

How do you like the Expodisc? I understand you have to take an incident reading with them?

And too bad I couldn't talk you into that test. Sadly, I love the tech side of photography a bit too much...

[Arbib]

According to a resent NPR radio show on the origin of words...BOTH
with a caveat...The Spelling "GREY" tends to be used for a lighter shade than "GRAY"...

Not sure with one is for 18%...But "GRAY" may be the better choose.

[PhotosbyChuck]

Originally Posted by Arbib

According to a resent NPR radio show on the origin of words...BOTH
with a caveat...The Spelling "GREY" tends to be used for a lighter shade than "GRAY"...

Not sure with one is for 18%...But "GRAY" may be the better choose.

It's a real grey area.

[soupman]

Wow! I guess I had better study up on gray.

I thought RG was asking something clever about "gray" vs. "grey". I thought one was a color and one was a person. (Now I'll slink away to my corner and observe some more.)

[r_fredrick_smith]

In the US and Canada, Gray appears to be the common variant for the color gray and for most other uses of gray. But in England Grey is used for the color most often. But you always see the dog spelled greyhound. The English language is a slippery slope. But gray/grey has unique usage in its photographic parlance and that has also put us on a less that level surface. Maybe its all Ansel's fault!
Cheers,
rfs

[BlueCrow]

Originally Posted by soupman

Wow! I guess I had better study up on gray.

I thought RG was asking something clever about "gray" vs. "grey". I thought one was a color and one was a person. (Now I'll slink away to my corner and observe some more.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who just thought that it was a play on words.

[beejayphoto]

Depends on whether you live in US or UK (or British commonwealth) gray for US, grey for UK

[Kirk]

I just check on Crayola's web site. In their product catalog its spelled "Gray". Its got to be right!

[PhotosbyChuck]

Oh they've made mistakes before. They discontinued Prussian Blue and Flesh for obvious reasons. They also discontinued "Blue Gray" ... maybe Gray is next!

[Jim Peters]

Ummm,Gee Guys Either Way That You type It,It Communicates!
JP