How well do you see color?

[Rogier]

Here is a very cool online test to determine your lever off color blindness. I Scored 19. Will give it an other try later today. Will also be interesting to see if a different screen will make a difference as well.
The monitor I used this morning has a slight green hue.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en

 

[Pherdinand]

everyone's color blind. Just that some of us don't know it yet

 

[v_roma]

Got a 4

 

[brbo]

Huh. I have perfect color vision. Score: 0.

 

[Lauffray]

Cool test ! I always thought I must be slightly color blind since I shoot only BW and struggle with color
Scored a 10, want to try it at home on my other monitor

 

[david3558]

Got a 4, hue discrimination in the second row...

Edit: This is on a bad monitor but I have a feeling that it will probably be the same on the other!

 

[jonasv]

224.

Never had any trouble explaining why I shoot B&W...

 

[Aristophanes]

16

Most trouble in Row 3. Lousy work monitor.

Cool test. Thanks for the link.

 

[dannynono]

64 - semi-failed my first color test when enlisting. Still shoot color, but don't ask me to correct for skin tones.

 

[jsrockit]

On my work monitor:

Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
Your score: 7
FM Hue Test Results

 

[SausalitoDog]

Yikes.... That's all I can say.

I'm thinking...."Stick with black & white"

 

[dasuess]

Scored a 90 on my Dell laptop with Dell monitor at work. Let's hope I do better on my macbook at home where I do all my image PP.

 

[Pherdinand]

hm. i scored 8. is that bad or good?

 

[Sparrow]

... perfect

 

[benmacphoto]

Scored 190.
Which is why I rarely shoot color.

 

[muser53]

Received a 39, FWIW I'm 59 male. Monitor is a 27in Imac with no calibration other than what comes with the unit.

 

[Sparrow]

It's not ideal doing these things online, there are lots of miscalibrations that could slew the results, getting a proper hisihara (sp) test on paper is the only way to know

 

[dbm]

89 Guess I should stick to B&W as well

 

[sevo]

It is fairly pointless as a vision test. But it might be more meaningful as a test how your monitor, calibration, workplace environment and vision interact - depending on which of my (identically calibrated) monitors I take the test on and how much ambient light is around, todays results ranged from 5 to 39 (and even something in the sixties the time I tried last).

 

[Richard G]

It's not ideal doing these things online, there are lots of miscalibrations that could slew the results, getting a proper hisihara (sp) test on paper is the only way to know

The Ishihara plates are the ones in the doctor's office with the coloured dots amongst which are some more consistent colours making numbers. These are specifically designed for genetic colour blindness and are less sensitive to other colour deficiencies, say due to optic nerve disease or cerebral abnormalities. For subtle optic nerve disease the Farnsworth Munsell kit with these same colours (like the online link) as moveable paint pots in a lovely, and of course very expensive, wooden box set is the best test.