Try this Colour Test

Put me down for a 12 but I do wonder how much this measures monitor quality versus eye accuracy. Either way I'm satisfied.
 
I managed 11, but my MacBook does not allow for very good calibration and the colors are a bit dull.

But it was interesting, thanks. :)
 
I took this test a while ago and got 6 on my MBP, but the thought of doing it again is already making my eyes water!

I, too, think the monitor plays a huge part in this test though!
 
Just got 112! Reckon I'm leading the colour blind challenge division of this test! All the colour "curves" look perfect to me, but clearly not what you all see - I remember those school eyesight tests where they showed you a test sheet and those of you with good colour vision saw "33" and I saw "96" - and you couldn't see that...

I am rated CP4 (red/green) by the army...range is 1-4. That means when on a firing range with a red flag at a mile distant against a background of pine trees I would struggle to see the flag, but the questions along the lines of "what colour is my jacket" seem stupid...you can't understand what I see and I have no idea what you see....generally your green jacket looks what I know as green at 2 yards!

Good enough colour vision for 7 years as an infantryman but not Armour (coloured lights), Engineers (wrong coloured wires), Ordanance (same), Signals (same) or Catering Corps (Icing?) and I know I have no chance of being a night sailor...I stuggle to see the differnce between a UK £20 (purple?) and £5 (blue?) note on colour, but have learned to check the numbers!

Coming back to photography - I have moved to B&W over the last couple of years - like the look anyway, but maybe I also find the digital PP suits me better and has less chance for me to muck it up!

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Hey Pavel...those really funky colours you and I can see...don't you feel sorry for the "normal" people!? I just directed my 75+ year old father to this test and he scored 16, blaming a dreadful monitor, being in a hurry and so on...50 or so years ago he was a BBC cameraman and I'm sure he despairs of my strange eyesight! Guy.
 
I got a 10, on a non calibrated Fujutsi Siemens LCD from 2004, in the dark with one fluorescent spot reflected off the ceiling.
 
This is essentially the Munsell-100 colour hue test, well, a variation on it. The lower the score, the better - zero is perfect (which no-one should achieve really). I used to be a colour-matcher and had to do the test routinely. The results vary according to your mood, health etc. I'm not sure how some of you got odd-number scores, the "proper" test scores in multiples of 4! I used to score between 4 and 16 but that was with coloured tiles, not on a monitor.

Unless you're using a calibrated monitor it's not going to be easy to get an accurate score since the monitor may not be good enough. By the way, it helps not to stare for too long at one colour area and it helps a lot to look at a neutral grey card, to rest your colour vision.
 
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pevelg said:
Actually, being color blind does not mean you only see in white and black. There is an eye condition where the (rods?, maybe cones) are dysfunctional and this causes one to see in only black and white. However, that condition comes with other consequences (poorer ability to see detail).

In my case, I have a great difficulty in distinguising shades of colors. Things just look the same.

As for your question, I shoot both color and black and white. However, when shooting color I am now only shooting slides. When scanning, I use IT8 targets to correct color and usually don't do any other changes to color. Another thing one should note is that I was never aware that I was colorblind until much later in life. I thought what I saw was/is normal and what everyone else saw. For example, during highschool I did a lot of art work and won some nice awards, but the judges never saw what I saw in my artwork and I saw it through colorblind eyes. Sort of freaky!!! :D

Since learning about colorblindness, I've started shooting more black and white and this has made post processing easier for me. I'd recommend B&W for your father as it makes the task easier and more enjoyable.
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Technically, you aren't colour-blind, you're colour-deficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_blindness

As an aside, X-Rite are widely used for their colour-measuring equipment, in the colour matching industries.
 
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I think this was linked to from here once before, but that's the second time I've done it and had a perfect score, calibrated mac cinema screen, i'm going to get my 18year old son to have a go, I've always worried that this screen was too much of a compromise over a professional monitor, but doesn't seem too shabby.
 
jwc57 said:
Maybe not. I scored 136. I've always had a "color" problem.
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Doesn't follow, I worked for quite a few years in the colour matching sector and one guy I knew regularly scored around the 256 mark on this and he was a good colour-matcher! A lot depends if you got a few tiles majorly wrong or lots of them slightly wrong. What did the graph show?

If this scores the same way the Munsell test does, you get 2 for each tile one position out (hence, by definition, another must be and the minimum non-zero score is 4). Get it two positions away and you score 4, three positions scores 8 etc. Kinda makes the scoring complex! That's working from memory, I could have that wrong since it's been 10 years since I last did it. The principle is right, I'm pretty sure.
 
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Zero, I have perfect color vision (apparently)! Where's my cash prize??

Did the test on an old white iMac. To me, it's less about picking colors than the differences between them. I just began the test by shuffling the tiles into 'generally' the right order and from there, any tile interrupting the continuous spectrum stuck out in an obvious way. Definitely wouldn't want to do this test somewhere with lots of extraneous light (outdoors).
 
I scored zero also... a little surprising for aged male eyes. I'd think computer monitor calibration wouldn't be particularly important for this test, as it's a comparative matter as Sine said. FWIW, calibrated 27" iMac, introduced Dec 09.
 
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