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Old 02-18-2009, 10:39 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Raven View Post
...maybe there's a camera device that measures in foot candles
the available light.........Crafty would know....
Yup, Rav - you could use a light meter and take a reflective reading off the surface of the plug - if you're careful to avoid getting a false reading off a specular highlight (the reflective quality of the finish). That's an old school way.

New school would be to take a digital photo, carefully calibrate your monitor and use a Spider or a similar device to take a reading - same thing, newer version.

I'd probably use the old school method - fewer variables involved.

But then you're missing the point when you're actually using the plug in the water with those variables in the field like the ambient light at the time, the depth (as it affects the color spectrum) so forth and so on down the line...

For chrissakes, Rav, just put on an eel and get it over with...

"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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