How good is your color vision?

[removed account4]

perfect color vision is over rated

 

[jcc]

These tests usually fail badly for me - the answers often don't match anything. But I'm colour blind to some purples (I think they are dark blue without a comparison) and my discrimination of reds is limited. But I am not red/green colour blind. If I was, darkrooms would be rough It was difficult learning to make rock thin sections where colours under polarized light are a diagnostic!

My friend found out he was color blind while we were in petrology. Lived his whole life not knowing it till then.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

I tried to watch the movies, "The Color Purple", "Clockwork Orange" and "Soylent Green" but the screen was blank the whole time.

 

[jp80874]

I worked with a fellow salesman back when you programmed equipment by changing color coded wire connections. He had set up a demonstration of a machine that was worth a month and a half's quota. The demonstration had management from a local company. Our boss sat in.

The demo failed with gusto. The prospects were angry that he had wasted their time. The salesman was embarrassed. The Service Manager was assigned to figure out what went wrong with the equipment. The salesman was later informed that he must be color blind, because all the programing was wrong to do what he stated was the objective. He was 45 before he became aware that he was color blind.

Of course a better salesman would have tested the equipment after he programmed it, discovered a problem and sought help before the demo, but he didn’t. I never noticed he was color blind by how he dressed, but then my girl friend picked out all my color combinations.

John Powers

 

[swchris]

3/10

But I know that I'm color-blind...

 

[lxdude]

I tried to watch the movies, "The Color Purple", "Clockwork Orange" and "Soylent Green" but the screen was blank the whole time.

I suppose "The Pink Panther", "The Blue Lagoon", "The Black Stallion", and "Reds" weren't any better...

 

[David Brown]

I think there might not be 100% overlap with color-blindness and color discrimination. My wife can see differences in color on a micro (to me) level. I never, ever (anymore) say that something is grey. She always sees some tint in the "grey".

My standing joke is that as kids, she had the box of 64 Crayolas, while I only had the box of 8 ... :confused:

 

[benjiboy]

I think there might not be 100% overlap with color-blindness and color discrimination. My wife can see differences in color on a micro (to me) level. I never, ever (anymore) say that something is grey. She always sees some tint in the "grey".

My standing joke is that as kids, she had the box of 64 Crayolas, while I only had the box of 8 ... :confused:

It's a well documented fact David that females have wider colour vision than us males. my wife can see subtle colour differences I just fail to see.

 

[Alan Klein]

It would be interesting to hear from you photographers who are color-blind on how this effects your BW and/or color photography - shooting, processing, printing or displaying on the web, etc. What issues do you find? What do you do to compensate for it? Your experiences may be of value to other color-blind photographers as well as for those that aren't.

 

[baachitraka]

How good is your color calibration? http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

I got 0 for this...

 

[Old_Dick]

I could not figure out any of the nonnumerical pictures and only some of the numerical. I wish they had a "see nothing" choice.

What red light?

 

[cowanw]

Alas I am a cultural failure, not being on face book forbade me my results.

 

[F4user]

My online test


calibrated monitor seems to be mandatory :confused:

 

[mnemosyne]

A good display and color calibration will surely help ...
I scored a humble 12 last night with the smallish display of my cheap sub-notebook and did it again today on the much larger 22" TFT (properly set up, but not color calibrated) at my workspace and scored 4 ... So somehow hope is still alive that I might score zero with a perfectly calibrated monitor

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

My monitor isn't perfectly calibrated either but it's not too bad. The way I got a perfect score on the calibration test (first try) is I rearranged every tile as close to correctly as possible then moved tiles to the left or right to compare with other tiles with a little more color contrast. Yeah, I guess I cheated a bit but only moved two or three tiles after the initial sorting. Too bad my vision is blurry due to astigmatism.

 

[DREW WILEY]

We had a fellow here who filled in one day when the ordinary paint mixer was off. He didn't understand the difference between red oxide pigment and red toner. They're really the same kind of pigment, except that one is sixteen times stronger than the other. Somebody want three five gallon buckets of a particular "off white" that contains said red toner, but in goes straight red oxide. So it ends up heavy brick red instead.The next week one of the salesmen asks if there's any mismatched off-white paint he can have for free. Sure. He was colorblind. Puts this brick red stuff all over his residential walls and it looks fine to him. Then his wife comes home ...........

 

[edcculus]

This one exists as little plastic tubs as well. They're a little easier to see as a row, but each has a black border, too. I sorta suspect that the type of computer screen and the range it can render may skew the results a bit on the web version. I still did ok, but not perfect (I got just one wrong in the real life one and 7 in the web one) - the green/blue section is where I wasn't great.

Some forensic labs test new hires with this one, btw.

I work in print production. We do the actual test with the tiles for everyone in the prepress department and press operators. Its also fun to do to customers who are on site for a press approval too.

 

[Wayne]

10 of 10, but #9 was hard to be certain. Kind of like those awful captchas that think they show a number or letter but really don't.

 

[aRolleiBrujo]

I'm factually color inefficient unfortunately.