> Yes, OK, but I always failed to see the reason why anybody would use
> L*a*b with e.g. D65 'cause every piece of hardware and any color 
> management software I could put my hands on is using D50.

In some industries (eg the one I work in) D65 is the "de facto" standard 
used for everything - illuminants, CIELAB reference white, reference for 
dominant wavelength/saturation values, etc.  Every bit of kit I have and 
every piece of software/spreadsheet we use is set up for D65.  I would 
imagine that if some customer came along and started asking for D50 as the 
standard there would be *massive* confusion throughout our department and 
everything would come out wrong :-)  It's just what you're used to I guess.

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