Am 14.03.2014 11:18, schrieb Tobias Ellinghaus: > Am Freitag, 14. März 2014, 08:42:49 schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: >> Am 11.03.2014 14:31, schrieb Wolfgang Mader: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> a quick question. What screen do you use? I would like to by one >>> specifically to work with images. To set the price- and need-range I am >>> not a professional. >>> >>> Best, >>> Wolfgang >> >> Hi folks, >> >> 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. > > [...] > >> Regards >> Rolf > > Tobias
Ah ok, thank you for these hints! This clears it up a bit for me. Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
