Ed R wrote:
Thank you for the quick response. I appreciate the information and clarification with the sources you provided. Also, why weren't any of the 1929 edition Munsell Book of Color references used that were provided by Raven? Were these accurate?
Ed
Hi Ed,
There were a few reasons:
Firstly, I hate using Munsell - it is a clumsy system with a large degree if inherent subjectivity
Secondly, a Munsell Book of Color is an absurdly expensive reference book for a system I will avoid if at all possible, particularly given the following. We've literally spent thousands on equipment and reference material but a Munsell book is positively ridiculous money
Lastly, nobody has ever been able to tell me where Alan Raven actually
got his Munsell matches. There are none that I have ever seen recorded in a primary source (i.e. contemporary / official) capacity, and if they are the same ones reflected on Steel Navy here:
http://www.steelnavy.com/rnchips.htm then they appear to fully include all of the errors we discovered looking at that primary source material and more - e.g. they have 507A and 507B as different colours and B30 and B55 are fairly bright greens which they absolutely were not, according to the Royal Navy's official paper trail. Hence, I believe the Munsell references are just what someone (Alan Raven or someone before him)
thought the colours were long after the event and are not based on anything worth taking seriously and certainly should not be valued more than primary source documents which contradict the Munsell references.