On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Very interesting thread for me, as I have plans for a new desktop PC for
> > both, photo and video work (but amateur level) as well as DTP.
> >
> > A question to the "pro's": are the conditions for photo and video work
> > the same, i. e. could I be happy with a screen for photo work and video
> > at the same time? Is it usual to apply the photo profiles to video too,
> > or special video profiles? Currently, I just control it on our ordinary
> > TV screen.
>
> If you want to do video editing, too, I would buy a monitor that is sRGB
> (as
> precise as possible) and not wide gamut, or that can be set to such a mode.
> The problem here is that no video player that I know of is able to use ICC
> profiles to show correct colors on the screen, but just dumps the pixels
> to the
> video buffer (modulo some details). And since most video formats use Rec709
> primaries which happen to be identical to sRGB you get the best results
> with a
> monitor set to that gamut.
>
If you want to do both, a wide gamut is better, but you should switch mode
on screen, according of what application you are doing (and if you are
using the monitor also to navigate, you should definitively switch also
sRGB).
Modern wide gamut monitors have an internal 3D-LUT table, and their panels
are usually capable to display more than 8-bit color, so you should lose
color bits, Note: Rec709 uses nearly 7.7 bit per color
BTW: There is nearly a "dichotomy": high level photographers prefer EIZO
and videographers go to NEC, but according tftcentral (already cited in the
thread), the panel are the same for many models of the two brands, and many
phtographers and videographers are happy with other less expensive monitors.
[For digital cinema you need wide gamut: DCI-P3 color space: wider on red,
but less wide on green than AdobeRGB]
ciao
cate
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