IPS doesn't mean good. IPS does mean 'not crap'. A tad different IMO. Colour restitution capabilities and uniformity are not there just because those are IPS panels.
2011/6/4 Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: > Some are. The larger iMac screens, eg 24" and up, are IPS displays which > don't exhibit the banding. The older iMacs and all the Mac notebooks have TN > displays which do show banding. That's why I have a secondary IPS LCD > monitor on my iMac that I do all my image editing on. > > -bmw > > On 11-06-04 5:17 AM, Thibouille wrote: >> >> Mmm not sure it is the graphics card. >> It is most probably the screen. And no, Mac screens are no better than >> PC screens :( >> >> 2011/6/3 Tim Bray<[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hah, the plot thickens. I can see the banding perfectly clearly on my >>> everyday MacBook Pro. But on our big high-quality NEC monitor, I >>> can't. But even on the big monitor, I can see the bands in that .png >>> file. >>> >>> Interesting because this is the first time there's actually been an >>> observable effect of the fairly limited graphics card in the laptop. >>> Thanks everyone for making me take a second look. -T >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Bob Sullivan<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Tim, >>>> I don't see the banding either. >>>> When I've had this kind of problem, >>>> the banding was caused by display resolution. >>>> Regards, Bob S. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Charles Robinson<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:47, Larry Colen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:11 AM, Tim Bray wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Check out >>>>>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/01/-big/RUNE0790.jpg.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Look at the green bokeh-fied background and observe the obvious lines >>>>>>> that look like elevation lines on a map, let's call them "bars", as >>>>>>> the green brightness drops off. They ain't there in the .dng, and >>>>>>> after the first cut, I specified 100% JPG quality and they're still >>>>>>> obvious. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It gets weird... I took a screen grab of the Lightroom window, in >>>>>>> which none of those bars are visible, and saved to a .png file, using >>>>>>> built-in OS X facilities, the PNG created by Preview. Obvious bars! >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> put it online at http://www.tbray.org/tmp/screen-grab.png - I thought >>>>>>> .png was uncompressed! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm sure that a silky-smooth jpg of this picture could be created. >>>>>>> But I don't know how. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's not too bad here. I wonder if you're pulling an Ann and have >>>>>> something set to too few bits. >>>>>> >>>>> I'm having the same issue - I cannot see the isobars/lines/whatever at >>>>> all. Silky-smooth on my screen (Chrome browser on a Macbook) >>>>> >>>>> -Charles >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >>>>> Minneapolis, MN >>>>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>>>> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ KX, MX, SuperA+Motor, Z1, P30 Mamiya C330+80/2.8 Sekonic L-208 FalconEyes TE300D x2 Studio flashes Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
