On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:16:06PM -0700, Tom C wrote: > If so, it wasn't the one I asked. > > While I have no doubt that an 8-bit monitor is "technically" superior to a > 6-bit monitor, since no picture contains anywhere near 16 million colors, I > would bet huge amounts that an individual could not tell simply by looking > at the image on two side by side LCD's if one was 6-bit vs. 8-bit. > > Tom C.
An 8-bit per component monitor can (in theory) display 2^24 different colours, while a 6-bit monitor can display 2^18. That's 16.7m vs 262144 (0.2m, not 16.2). While your eye is probably only capable of differentiating between at most 2^18 different colours, these are not uniformly spread across the 2^18 colours that a 6-bit monitor could display. You are most likely to see problems in dark areas of the screen, where you'll see blocking up of the colours. It depends on the individual and the image, of course, but the difference will be detectable on well-set-up monitors viewed under good conditions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
