Re: "native" gamma (was: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?)
Re: "native" gamma (was: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?)
- Subject: Re: "native" gamma (was: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?)
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:20:08 -0500
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> Like Bruce, I'd prefer to see the video card LUT be linear, go with
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> native display gamma, and compensate for it in the CMS
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The thread of this topic has lead me to another question...related to the
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Barco Calibrator monitors. Is "Uncorrected Gamma" the same as native?
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There are two choices in the Barco utility..."uncorrected" and "linear". I
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am assuming (perhaps erroneously) that a linear gamma would be a gamma of
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1.0 and that "native" and "uncorrected" are the same thing.
Ah! I think that they are the same thing.
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I'd like to hear more about why a native gamma would be theoretically
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"better" then a gamma of 2.2 (or whatever your preference is). As a
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devil's advocate kind of question, why not use the native whitepoint as
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well?
Absolutely! Why not use the native white point as well? But it's best to
calibrate the white point to a set of target chromaticities.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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