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I comment on some of the steps required to convert raw instrumental magnitudes, derived by profile-fitting or synthetic-aperture photometry from CCD images, to final calibrated photometry on a standard system. The status of the DAO program to obtain homogeneous BV photometry for star clusters and nearby galaxies will also be discussed.
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P. B. Stetson (1993) studied this question.
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