Ot-Humor: Defining Pigeon Blood

I wonder if this is the inspiration for Pigeon Blood?





***Moved to a category that more hobbyists will see***

Doesn't look dark enough to me LOL

Good point, Tim.

But, I'm not sure I've EVER seen two people agree on the color.

KS

Imaging software has been a kiss of death to our hobby. It is like people do not understand that we can spot the use of oversaturated images and other stupid adjustments made using software.

There are some advancements which would help push our hobby to the next level on colors, but the hitch is that everyone has to spend money (surprise, surprise).

The existing 'calibration' methods for electronic device are all pretty lame for the same reason, while they might calibrate your screen or printer they ignore a key factor... ambient lighting conditions. Doh.

This method/device/software seems to be getting close to what (in my opinion) HAS to be done if we ever expect to start getting on the same page for IDing stamp colors.



If all stamp collectors invested in this system, if everyone then used it correctly, we could actually begin to trust some of the images that are posted in this forum and in listings.
Don

Pigeon blood pink is a very peculiar shade, once you have seen it you tend to remember it.

The only thing I remember about the shade is I wasn't impressed enough with the difference between it and the main 64 shade to be spending that kind of money.

Needs to be viewed against an orange background...
No?

Spending the money is an individual collector thing, and really not the point. Which is that that shade will never be visible on a PC to the average collector (or anyone else I suspect) no matter how well calibrated it is.

And if it'is exposed to certain nature elements(air and sunlight) then it may not maintains its PBP status.

PBP?

Peter

Peter

PBP = Pigeon Blood Pink

Jim

Monkey Butt red is quite rare.

There is some speculation that MB red is actually a paper phenomenon...

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When the subject is Monkey Butt Red, I prefer to follow the crowd.


Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

MBR is not a shade I am familiar with. I would call it bright carmine.