Re: Wide gamut displays
Re: Wide gamut displays
- Subject: Re: Wide gamut displays
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:27:19 -0400
Dear Markus,
I also ran across someone on a newsgroup who said that he works for a
display company and, according to him, all currently manufactured panels,
out of the orient, are either 6-bit or 8-bit units. He says there is no such
thing as 12 to 16 bits internal processing.
To get back to your question, I don't think everyone wants or needs to buy a
wide gamut display now. But the prices are starting to come down. Remember
that NTSC is considered "wide" (very close primaries to AdobeRGB). So, we're
starting to see this coming in consumer market. This will inevitably drive
prices of WG display down. So, to me, it's a matter of time before WG
displays start to fall into "affordable" territory.
I don't think it is far-fetched to think that, one day, possibly, Apple
Cinema Displays will be available in wide gamut flavor. Then what, no one
will buy them?
My two cents,
Roger Breton
> in a forum post I ran across this statement by Karl Lang:
>
> 1) A wide gamut LCD display is not a good thing for most (95%) of
> high end users. The data that leaves your graphic card and travels
> over the DVI cable is 8 bit per component. You can't change this. The
> OS, ICC CMMs, the graphic card, the DVI spec, and Photoshop will all
> have to be upgraded before this will change and that's going to take
> a while. What does this mean to you? It means that when you send RGB
> data to a wide gamut display the colorimetric distance between any
> two colors is much larger. As an example, lets say you have two
> adjacent color patches one is 230,240,200 and the patch next to it is
> 230,241,200. On a standard LCD or CRT those two colors may be around .
> 8 Delta E apart. On an Adobe RGB display those colors might be 2
> Delta E apart on an ECI RGB display this could be as high as 4 delta E.
> It's very nice to be able to display all kinds of saturated colors
> you may never use in your photographs, however if the smallest
> visible adjustment you can make to a skin tone is 4 delta E you will
> become very frustrated very quickly.
>
> Is the situation still the same? And what is the general opinion
> about this issue here?
> Thanks,
>
> Markus
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