If you've got the time (several months, that is), check out all the links at
efg's Color Page - SUPER links to Color Management:
http://plum.ia.polsl.gliwice.pl/~DIP/delphi/Library/Color.htm
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 1:02 AM
Subject: OT: Monitors
| The day the current PUG went up, I took a first look at each photo
| on the Macintosh beside my bed.
|
| Since then, I've had it up on the Sun downstairs (in the half of the
| living room designated the server farm), occasionally hitting the
| "next" button if I'm down there to work on one of those machines, or
| pass through that room on my way to the kitchen.
|
| It's interesting to note just how very differently some images work
| on the different screens. (I'll get around to looking at them all
| under Windows later, when I feel like resetting one of the Windows
| boxen to 16-bit colour (and thus fewer pixels -- Mars Needs VRAM!).)
| Some definitely look better on one than on the other. Some just
| look _different_ and convey a different mood. Makes me wonder what
| some of the prints look like, and which monitor comes closest for
| which images. What I find especially interesting is that some seem
| sharper on the Mac, and others seem sharper on the Sun. The colours
| all seem more vibrant on the Sun, though some images wind up being
| too dark overall.
|
| "Kasia" (Dominik Ataman) looks a bleary, muddy mass of grey on the
| Mac. Pretty on the Sun. In-between and artsy on a VGA at 256
| colours. "Descending Plane" (Jostein Oksne) is _gorgeous_ on the
| mac but too dark to see the plane's trail on the Sun or a 256-colour
| VGA (with my usual brightness settings, of course). "Hoopster"
| (Nick Wright) _is_ a silhouette (as someone suggested it be turned
| into) on my 256-colur VGA.
|
| Obviously it's not just the Mac/Sun/Windows difference (they use
| different gammas, right?), but also the particular monitors in
| question and where I've got the brightness and contrast knobs
| turned, but it would be interesting sometime to put all three
| systems in one room, side by side, and page through a PUG an
| image at a time, showing the same image on each screen.
|
| I'm sure this isn't news to most of y'all -- it wasn't exactly
| a surprise to me, either -- but at the moment I'm fascinated
| by it. Not that the difference exists (I've known about that
| since the first time I edited an image on a Mac for someone to
| view on a Win95 system), but just how it affects different images
| differently.
|
| -- Glenn
|
| -
| This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe,
| go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to
| visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
|
|
-
This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe,
go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to
visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
