"Magenta is not a color"

Sirius Glass · Oct 27, 2019

For those who have been with APUG long enough to remember the cry of the dreaded two letter troll, "Magenta is not a color" Dedicated to PE and the others that put up with his bull$#!+

From the comic Zits:

Prest_400 · Oct 27, 2019

I dearly miss the good technical contributions in the Kodachrome thread, as PE had lots of insights written. Of course, he has had to put up with much BS and keep repeating some of the knowledge.
Those times, thanks PE for everything!
Two letter trol might be in Magenta land by now

BrianShaw · Oct 27, 2019

... and who’s the troll now. LOL

Photo Engineer · Oct 27, 2019

Thanks to all!

Helios 1984 · Oct 27, 2019

It’s none of my business but I think you misspelled fuchsia.

Ces1um · Oct 27, 2019

I only recognize red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet as colors. Everything else is made up by the greedy paint industry.

pentaxuser · Oct 27, 2019

Photo Engineer said:
Thanks to all!

Just goes to show what damage Trolls can do, PE. I clearly missed the original troll thread but picked up a statement from you in another thread that made the point that magenta was not a colour. I have often wondered since then what it was that decided you it wasn't a colour and now know it was part of a standing joke. Against a troll humour is like a deadly nerve gas

pentaxuser

Sirius Glass · Oct 27, 2019

pentaxuser said:
Just goes to show what damage Trolls can do, PE. I clearly missed the original troll thread but picked up a statement from you in another thread that made the point that magenta was not a colour. I have often wondered since then what it was that decided you it wasn't a colour and now know it was part of a standing joke. Against a troll humour is like a deadly nerve gas

pentaxuser

The only one who said that magenta was not a color was the two letter troll, not PE. Magenta is obviously a color but not a single wavelength; magenta can be made from combinations of various color is numerous combinations, but that was beyond the knowledge of the two letter troll whose name we do not speak.

pentaxuser · Oct 27, 2019

Thanks Sirius. I understand now that it was PE's humour against a troll and that his comment on another thread or it might even have been the offending thread that maybe I hadn't followed, was part of his deadly nerve gas attack called humour on the troll

Unless PE takes that same deadly draught that infected Dr Jekyll and becomes a different person of another two letters a la Mr Hyde then no, I never even considered that he was the troll.

Put it all down to that strange Limey sense of humour

pentaxuser

removed account4 · Oct 27, 2019

BrianShaw said:
... and who’s the troll now. LOL

i think its all about the 30K

Arklatexian · Oct 27, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
The only one who said that magenta was not a color was the two letter troll, not PE. Magenta is obviously a color but not a single wavelength; magenta can be made from combinations of various color is numerous combinations, but that was beyond the knowledge of the two letter troll whose name we do not speak.

In case many of you have not noticed, color in some parts of photography are mixtures of colors, not colors in themselves. Such as cyan, and magenta for instance. so you could probably say neither one is a color. Aren't these mostly dyes? Didn't Kodachrome make its palette of colors differently? Don't ask me how? I have been told but don't remember. Don't have those problems if you only shoot black and white. I am talking about color, not my memory........Regards!

Photo Engineer · Oct 27, 2019

Cyan and Yellow are Colors and exist on the spectrum of colors. Magenta is a combination (or lack) of two colors. And, here we go again. (Quoting Cosmo Topper for those as old as me)

PE

Sirius Glass · Oct 27, 2019

One really had to be here when the two letter troll haunted APUG to understand the many levels of humor.

tnp651 · Oct 28, 2019

Helios 1984 said:
It’s none of my business but I think you misspelled fuchsia.

Magenta really fuchsia up.

chriscrawfordphoto · Oct 28, 2019

Who is the Two Letter Troll??

BrianShaw · Oct 28, 2019

SG, it seems.

Nodda Duma · Oct 28, 2019

My whole family trolls me with a Brain Games episode on color where they said green (for example) is everything but green, referring to how a green surface absorbs all other colors and reflects green.

Cannot describe the level of annoyance with that incoherent babble.

macfred · Oct 28, 2019

Magenta is a color (wikipedia says) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta

About Black (and White) : '' It is an achromatic color, a color without hue, like white and gray ...''

removed account4 · Oct 28, 2019

BrianShaw said:
SG, it seems.

SSDD

maybe he trading her in for a newer model ?

MattKing · Oct 28, 2019

Magenta isn't a colour - it is a philosophy!

macfred · Oct 28, 2019

... and black and white is a matter of style

drkhalsa · Oct 28, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
One really had to be here when the two letter troll haunted APUG to understand the many levels of humor.

Aah, the good old days!

Agulliver · Oct 30, 2019

My Sinclair Spectrum says Magenta is a colour.....

scheimfluger_77 · Oct 30, 2019

BrianShaw said:
SG, it seems.

That’s disturbing, those are my initials. But I don’t remember that user.

Photo Engineer · Oct 30, 2019

That was not his ID.

"Magenta is not a color"

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