Table 2: Opacity of the WFPC2 field from Cepheid reddening and Galaxy counts.
Galaxy E(V-I) $\sigma$ E(V-I) $A_{\rm Cepheid}$ $A_{\rm SFM}$
NGC 925 0.21 0.02 0.8 $\rm -0.4_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 1365 0.20 0.02 0.8 $\rm0.5_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 1425 0.16 0.03 0.6 $\rm0.5_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 2541 0.20 0.02 0.8 $\rm0.8_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 3198 0.15 0.04 0.6 $\rm0.8_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 3319 0.13 0.04 0.5 $\rm0.9_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$
NGC 3351 0.24 0.04 1.0 $\rm 1.2_{-0.6}^{+0.5}$
NGC 3621-OFF 0.36 0.04 1.4 $\rm 1.0_{-0.4}^{+0.3}$
NGC 3627 0.24 0.03 1.0 $\rm 2.1_{-0.7}^{+0.7}$
NGC 4321 0.22 0.03 0.9 $\rm 2.3_{-0.8}^{+0.7}$
NGC 4414-2 0.15 0.04 0.6 $\rm0.7_{-0.4}^{+0.3}$
NGC 4496A 0.14 0.01 0.6 $\rm 5.0_{-0.9}^{+0.8}$
NGC 4535 0.19 0.02 0.8 $\rm0.7_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$
NGC 4536 0.18 0.02 0.7 $\rm0.9_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$
NGC 4548 0.18 0.04 0.7 $\rm0.8_{-0.4}^{+0.3}$
NGC 4639 0.12 0.04 0.5 $\rm0.8_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 4725 0.29 0.03 1.2 $\rm0.8_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$
NGC 7331 0.25 0.05 1.0 $\rm0.3_{-0.3}^{+0.3}$


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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 The "Synthetic Field Method''
3 Discussion of systematic effects
4 Surface brightness and disk opacity
5 Surface brightness and opacity in arm and disk
6 Disk opacity and NIR color
7 Dust and light scalelengths
8 Comparison to Cepheid reddening
9 Discussion: implication for our view of spiral disk
10 Conclusions
References
List of tables
List of figures