Am 14.03.2014 14:09, schrieb Giacomo Catenazzi: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > >
Ok, this is all about amateur level, so I should simply look for an sRGB switchable screen, right? Thank you very much for the help! 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
