Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- Subject: Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:15:38 -0400
> You could say exactly the same about Windows and gamma 1.8 (and you'd
> probably find that the issue would be much more pervasive there). It's
> not that gamma 2.2 is the "ideal" gamma value.
Why not? At least the best of the power function compromises, for visual
reasons, according to our friend Bruce Lindbloom. It trust his maths.
> I know that e.g. the
> authors of "Real World Color Management" think 2.2 is "the best" from
> a visual POV. Others argue 1.8 is superior, still others favor *L. The
> only thing that provides the real momentum behind gamma 2.2 is that
> it's the native PC value, which really is not a technical argument,
> just a pragmatic one.
2.2 "native" PC value? If you've followed the evolution of PCs and Windows
over the year, from the DOS days, I don't know how you can make that claim.
To me, there isn't anything "native" about 2.2 and PCs any more than those
that argue that 1.8 is "native" to Macs, that's all hogwash. One the Mac,
1.8 was chosen in relation to a printed output not because of some
inherently 'native' quality. On PCs, I don't know how 2.2 came to be, I'm
not going to bullshit you. But all the textbooks I read about video
processing and gamma all claim that monitor manufacturers have historically
chosen to set gamma at 2.45. So 2.2 isn't a bad approximation.
Others can fill in the blanks.
Roger Breton
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