Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-12-01 Thread Rob Geraghty
Pete wrote: Anyway, this is definitely NOT the way that the human eye works. I don't think anyone has made a biological light sensor for colour calibration. :) The human eye has only 3 colour sensors, with nearly 100% overlap in their spectral responses. I'm reasonably certain this is

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Ligtenberg
From: photoscientia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:47 PM Hi all, Can I steer this back to monitor calibration please? I've been experimenting further with dithered tones, and I'd like your collective opinion on these little 'greyscales' that

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-30 Thread photoscientia
Hi Berry. Berry Ives wrote: I thought the gamma for my monitor was about 1.5 based on the test at: http://www.zonezero.com/calibration/english.html Using your test, however, it appears to be about 1.8 - 2.0. My monitor is a NEC XV15. Don't know if that helps any. The zonezero gamma

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-30 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/30/00 5:13 AM, Mark Ligtenberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: photoscientia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:47 PM Hi all, Can I steer this back to monitor calibration please? I've been experimenting further with dithered tones,

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-29 Thread Berry Ives
on 11/29/00 3:47 PM, photoscientia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Can I steer this back to monitor calibration please? I've been experimenting further with dithered tones, and I'd like your collective opinion on these little 'greyscales' that I've come up with. They're very small

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-28 Thread photoscientia
Hi again Rob. Rob Geraghty wrote: >"Long-pass edge filters"!! - What?? I'd say that it's meant to read "low-pass". Something probably got lost in the translation either between the technical team and the sales team, or between the sales team and the web designer. Ok. It seems that the optical

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-27 Thread photoscientia
Hi Rob Rob Geraghty wrote: I'm just curious how they can make an accurate and sensitive enough photometer for that money. Define "accurate enough". Accurate enough for what and whom? Accurate enough as in; good enough for the job. Even a cheap monitor is capable of a 600 to 1 brightness

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-26 Thread Rob Geraghty
Pete wrote: Does this spyder thingumajig plug into the joystick port by any chance? Ah, humour! No, it plugs into the serial or USB port. I'm just curious how they can make an accurate and sensitive enough photometer for that money. Define "accurate enough". Accurate enough for what and

RE: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-26 Thread Frank Paris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Rodney Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:05 PM To: Film Scanners; Rob Geraghty Subject: Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others on 11/26/00 3:54 PM, Rob Geraghty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: : Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-25 Thread photoscientia
Hi Ed. Ed Lusby wrote: My question is, how do I know if adobe gamma is going to set the monitor at 2.2, or if the 3dfx software will over-ride and set the gamma to whatever you set it at? The monitor gamma seems much higher than the voodoo card's default value of 1.00. Adobe Gamma

Re: : Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-25 Thread Mystic
y Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 04:21 Subject: Re: : Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others My question is, how do I know if adobe gamma is going to set the monitor at 2.2, or if the 3dfx software will over-ride and set the gamma

Re: : Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-25 Thread Jim Snyder
photoscientia wrote: "Without deviation from the norm, no progress is possible." Frank Zappa "The most common element in the universe isn't Hydrogen, it's stupidity" - FZ. ...and here I thought it was apathy... Jim Snyder

Re: Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-24 Thread Ezio
lmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others I have a question on how to adjust your monitor to a certain gamma. In the adobe gamma program, you have to select a gamma of 2.2 for windows. There is an apparent option for "custom" but when I selected this, it just reverted back t

Re: : Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-24 Thread Tony Sleep
My question is, how do I know if adobe gamma is going to set the monitor at 2.2, or if the 3dfx software will over-ride and set the gamma to whatever you set it at? The monitor gamma seems much higher than the voodoo card's default value of 1.00. Use one or the other! If you use

: Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-23 Thread Ed Lusby
I have a question on how to adjust your monitor to a certain gamma. In the adobe gamma program, you have to select a gamma of 2.2 for windows. There is an apparent option for "custom" but when I selected this, it just reverted back to "windows 2.2". My computer has a Voodoo3 2000

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-22 Thread Tony Sleep
Thanks for the response Tony, I'm glad it's not just my tired old peepers. Errr, who, or what, is Timo, BTW? Scourge of rec.photo.digital and comp.periphs.scanners, Timo Autiokari, #1 advocate of Linear Gamma for Everything. Do a search on www.dejanews.com to see how much trouble he's

RE: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-21 Thread Laurie Solomon
21, 2000 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others (re monitor gamma of 1) Tony Sleep wrote: Ah, you've been Timo'd? Nope, and for all the reasons you state. Besides, I run other software on the same machine, and being able to see it helps

Re: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-20 Thread Tony Sleep
Can I just ask if anyone else on the list is actually using a monitor set to a true gamma of 1? Ah, you've been Timo'd? Nope, and for all the reasons you state. Besides, I run other software on the same machine, and being able to see it helps ;) The only bit that benefits is dark tone

RE: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others

2000-11-18 Thread Frank Paris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Phelps Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Monitor Calibration And Others Good day all I am looking for software and hardware to