Re: On buying a new CRT these days...
Re: On buying a new CRT these days...
- Subject: Re: On buying a new CRT these days...
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:33:53 EDT
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Roger Breton wrote:
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>Just when I finally decided I could not fork the money for a SONY Artisan
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>and deciced instead to settle on a Mitsubishi 22" 2070SB monitor, to
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>replace my ailing 19" Mitsu900u, Nec Mitsubishi just announed
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>they're coming out indecember with an "Adobe RGB monitor" 22"
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>monitor. model RDF225WG!
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Hardwiring monitors to specific spaces is a bit like trying to run SWOP ink
colors in an inkjet... it sounds great, but the limititations rather undo the
value of it.
In the case of a monitor, we're talking about a unit whose phosphor hues
match AdobeRGB (frankly, the same hues would also pretty much match sRGB, except
the green will be brighter) and an attempt to balance them appropriately. The
luminance is a seperate issue, as is gamma, where the monitor would simply
shoot for gamma 2.2 (which again would be the same as sRGB) but would need
calibration to get it exact. Both spaces are at d65 (again, more accurate with
hardware profiling), which is what you are balancing with the guns, so its really a
green phosphor saturation issue. When you are done the difference between an
"AdobeRGB monitor" and a monitor calibrated properly to Gamma 2.2, 6500 is only
that the "AdobeRGB monitor" might be a bit more accurate in
*non-color-managed* applications (either will be fine in color managed apps). But since most
unmanaged applications assume sRGB on the PC and Gamma 1.8 on the Mac, this is
not necessisarily going to improve things.
So why not properly calibrate and profile a monitor with a good phosphor set,
work in color managed applications, and be done with it? How, with this kind
of workflow, (which most of us use) is an "AdobeRGB monitor" or any advantage?
If, on the other hand this is simply a marketing scheme for a new phosphor
set with a bit more range in the greens, thats fine too... though thats not the
end of the gamut where I would most like to see more range added. Between the
Cinema22 and the Cinema23 Apple actually reduced the green saturation, but at
the same time made the red and blue primaries richer (all three primaries
moved in a negative small y direction) which was a real improvement in my book.
C. David Tobie
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