Re: Adobe RGB?
Re: Adobe RGB?
- Subject: Re: Adobe RGB?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:21:07 EST
In a message dated 2/14/02 9:31:43 AM, email@hidden writes:
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On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 06:58 AM, email@hidden wrote
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(among other things):
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> ...you will want to rethink your luminance choices now that you have
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a
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> much
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> brighter display available. You can choke it back to match a CRT, but
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> thats a
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> shame... The best setting in OptiCAL is to use Native WhitePoint, which
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> should be about 6500 anyways. Setting the whitepoint to 5000k will do
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> mean
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> things to the gray balance on the Apple Displays. There was a bug in
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> some of
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> the recent PhotoCAL/OptiCAL releases that required a dot upgrade to
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> fix a
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> gamma issue. Go to <http://www.colorcal.com/software_upgrades.html> and
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> download the x.5.1 update to your software if you don't have it.
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What's a realistic BlackPoint on the Apple LCD's?
Definately something above absollute black...
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I recently received my
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LCD Spyder
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& OptiCal upgrade & found it unable to deal with any "brightness"
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setting lower than
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.60 on my 17" LCD Studio Display.
The 17" display is even brighter than the 22, it offers luminance readings as
high as 300 can/sq.m!
I've used .30 as an aimpoint with
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CRT's with
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good results before.
This ain't your father's CRT...
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You're right about the luminance though; to get a value close to 100-120
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the monitor
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seems quite dim. Strange to see possible values approaching 180 after
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using CRT's
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for so long. Does a high value setting in any way adversely affect the
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LCD's
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useable lifespan?
They haven't been around long enough to determine that... but it appears that
dead pixels are likely to creep in and destroy your display before the bulbs
fail.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
email@hidden
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