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| vk6zgo:
Apart from the background colours, the cheap & nasty paint used for the stripes is so poor that orange, red & brown are almost the same colour. |
| Fungus:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 23, 2020, 01:49:10 am ---Apart from the background colours, the cheap & nasty paint used for the stripes is so poor that orange, red & brown are almost the same colour. --- End quote --- Yep, the quality of the paint colors and the width of the stripes has deteriorated, too. |
| EEVblog:
No idea how blue became the standard for metal film, but it's always been a tad annoying. My eyes aren't exactly getting better with age, and those colors on the blue background have gotten harder in the last few years, especially in low light. |
| rdl:
I don't know what kind of paint they use for the stripes, but I'm pretty sure the colors would be more easily seen if they'd just not be so cheap and add a little white pigment. Many of the organic pigments are very nearly black in the masstone. Phthalo blue and phthalo green in particular are very dark. Some of the violet pigments are also. They are also fairly transparent which probably doesn't help. |
| tautech:
Don’t matter what colour the body is, run them a little warm and good luck identifying band colours ! |
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