IIRC, Macs once used a gamma of 1.8; but a few OS versions ago decided to join the PC world at 2.2.
Rick On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 20:55 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > When my last display died I got a Samsung lu28e510ds from costco. I've > tried calibrating it with my color munki. It doesn't have automatic > brightness control so I have to do that manually. > > Interestingly to get it right by the software, I have to set the > brightness way down to 20/100 rather than the expected 50. > > I did just try adjusting the gamma to Mode 3 which seems to help with > the tough lady photo. > > This page > https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043788/ > has > Gamma Options: > > Mode1: Gamma 2.2 (Medium) > Mode2: Gamma 2.0 (High) > Mode3: Gamma 2.4 (Low) > > I don't know what the expected/nominal gamma on a mac is. > > Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? > > > > > Larry Colen wrote: > > > > > > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> Thanks Ann. I go by the histogram for the most part but I might be > >> over brightening the mid range. Works great for printing, but perhaps > >> not for web images. > > > > Despite calibrating both of my monitors, theoretically against each > > other, there is still a slight difference in brightness between them. > > Your processing works perfectly on the darker of my monitors (the > > vertical one). In this case it's very interesting to me to hear how > > people feel whether this photo is just right, or perhaps a shade bright. > > > > FWIW, it looks good on my phone too, so maybe it was my monitor that was > > adjusted to be a bit too bright. > > > > > >> > >> Paul > >> > >>> On Apr 8, 2018, at 4:59 PM, ann sanfedele<ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> love that ! - we could call her "my little cheeky-dee" > >>> > >>> larry thought a tad light.. I kinda agree but then I tend to like > >>> things a bit darker thanmost > >>> > >>> ann > >>> > >>>> On 4/8/2018 2:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >>>> A female Chickadee challenges a male at the feeder. He skedaddled. > >>>> > >>>> https://www.photo.net/photo/18466874/One-Tough-Lady > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> PDML@pdml.net > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >>> and follow the directions. > >> > >> > > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
