Well we can see 16.7 million or even 1 billion colors but we just can't differentiate them. 8-) DAVID SCHARF PHOTOGRAPHY David http://www.electronmicro.com On 1/4/20 2:25 PM, Andrew Rodney via colorsync-users wrote:
1 billion possible numbers (Device Values) sure; easy to do via encoding numbers. 1 billion possible colors? No. _*We can't even see 16.7 million colors,*_ another common range of possible device values based on encoding numbers.
But the marketing people writing for display companies (and scanners and cameras) apparently believe that people believe more color (numbers) is more colors and that's "better".
Andrew Rodney http://www.digitaldog.net/ <http://www.digitaldog.net/>
On Jan 4, 2020, at 1:12 PM, Wire ~ via colorsync-users <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
Re 1 billion colors: HDMI and DP (I thinj) support 10 bit color data path from graphics to device. 3 x 2^10 is a billion. Not sure what content can use this?
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