Benefits of having an NEC PA series monitor connected to a Mac? (Dimitri Katsaros)
Benefits of having an NEC PA series monitor connected to a Mac? (Dimitri Katsaros)
- Subject: Benefits of having an NEC PA series monitor connected to a Mac? (Dimitri Katsaros)
- From: Nagy Péter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:51:53 +0100
Hi Dimitri,
having 14-bit internal resolution makes the calibration much more precise. The color temperature, the gray balance (throughout the whole gradation range) and the gamma can be adjusted much more perfectly. So your 8-bit data will look better on those displays, which employ 14-bit internal LUTs. Beside that, it’s possible that they use some kind of dithering, ‘upsampling’ the 8-bit data on-the-fly, to be more even, banding-free on the 14-bit screen.
On the other hand, even on an RGB backlight display (where the actual light source can be adjusted to achieve a certain color temperature) you won’t have the full 14-bit resolution available. On CCFL backlight units, you will loose around 2 bits from the internal resolution, just because of the calibration. This is why true hardware calibration always started at 10-bits internal.
That said, if you use a HDMI interface (which pumps out 10-bit color data per channel) to connect to your 14-bit screen, work with 16-bit images in Photoshop, then you did the absolute maximum toward image display precision.
Regards,
Peter
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