Diamine Sargasso Sea

[The Good Captain]

I can only do these two, of course, until 1st June.

Hope it helps.

[MrsGouletPens]

Great review! That sheen is AMAZING!!! WOW!

 

Yup - June First... ask the Goulets.

Yep. We have it here, we just are not supposed to release them before June 1.

[vistafan]

I already have Majestic Blue, but I think I will be buying a 30ml bottle of this :embarrassed_smile:

[DanielCoffey]

Yay! I am being stalked by Rachel! My work here is complete!

 

The nice thing about that sheen is that it is naked and unadjusted. No tweaking in Photoshop at all. That is a simple macro shot in direct sunlight at *just* the right angle cropped to fit the format I wanted to use. While the Wild Strawberry does indeed have sheen, it is shy and hard to see. Sargasso Sea, however, is happy to show it off uninvited.

[kronos77]

So why does this look so different than Tawanda's review where it is said to be a plain blue with no purple at all?

[DanielCoffey]

Some of the difference will be the pen and paper used but we have no idea if Tawanda has had the opportunity to colour calibrate her scanner.

 

As for my comment of "blue shading to purple", I guess that was subjective. In this wet pen I expressed what I saw by saying it tended slightly to purple rather than having any green bias.

 

There are plenty of options in the scanner control software to do things with white balance and so on which will dramatically affect how the scan looks, but the key to getting a scan to look good is to pay for a calibration sheet. These are usually extremely accurate prints done by a photo lab from a reference sheet coupled with a small data file of deviations from the reference which the scanner reads every time you use it. Every scanner (even two scanners of the same type) will have minor variations in their lamp and electronics so the reference sheets help get round this.

[1962falcon]

Daniel,

 

Another great review,thank you.

 

No question, it's a super blue which we are all keenly awaiting; not long now! Diamine have really whipped up a storm with this one, a great piece of marketing.

 

BTW....heard a rumour you had ordered that full set of Diamine's recent releases, is this true and may we expect reviews in the fullness of time?

[DanielCoffey]

I agree that Diamine have saved some of their best colours till last - Grape and Sargasso Sea in particular. When I spoke to Phil at Diamine he said that Sargasso Sea is in no way intended to be a copy of a certain other discontinued blue but is rather a bold new step for Diamine into the more saturated ink space.

 

As for the other inks, yes I have ordered and received all 15 of the current "new" inks, was kindly given samples of Sargasso and Ochre and will be buying the last three with everyone else next week.

 

I have not decided on what order to review and scan them in, but if you have any hot favourites you want to see sooner rather than later, send me a PM. That way we can keep the reviews on topic. Sam listed them in colour and date order HERE.

[tawanda]

Some of the difference will be the pen and paper used but we have no idea if Tawanda has had the opportunity to colour calibrate her scanner.

 

As for my comment of "blue shading to purple", I guess that was subjective. In this wet pen I expressed what I saw by saying it tended slightly to purple rather than having any green bias.

 

There are plenty of options in the scanner control software to do things with white balance and so on which will dramatically affect how the scan looks, but the key to getting a scan to look good is to pay for a calibration sheet. These are usually extremely accurate prints done by a photo lab from a reference sheet coupled with a small data file of deviations from the reference which the scanner reads every time you use it. Every scanner (even two scanners of the same type) will have minor variations in their lamp and electronics so the reference sheets help get round this.

 

 

Thanks Daniel, I don't feel quite such a techno-klutz now! I don't calibrate (partly because I don't know how, can't see my other half letting me mess with it anyhoo!) mainly because, I read that every printer/scanner has slight variations in any case. And unless you go to huge scientific lengths...

 

Then, of course, everyone's screens are going to offer variation, the lighting in the room will affect how your screen displays etc. Every pen/nib combination will also give slightly differing displays depepnding on width of nib, wetness etc. That's before we've even figured in the written description variances because our eyes all see colour in different ways as well. I personally see no 'cool' tones in Sargasso, so opted to state it wasn't a purpley-blue!

 

kronos77 - I see the main purpose of the reviews here on FPN just to give an *overall* idea of whether we might like an ink or not, and I personally prefer to give side-by-side examples of other similar colours in my review, just because that is what influences me most. Other folks may find info regarding feathering, water fastness, dry times more important.