And there in lies my point. Did I have a point? :-) Color reproduction and perception is highly subjective and even truly meaningful measurements or values may have little meaning in the fast paced world we live in. By way of example, everything I've done in the past 2.5 years has been processed in Photoshop on my 17" laptop screen. I have no idea what it's specifications are and have never truly cared. I am just overall satified with the results, and no body has come back and said "your pictures suck Tom" - Though I'm sure that's bound to happen now. :-)
Now I get ready to purchase an LCD monitor for home and I care? :-) I do in that I want the most for my money. I also realize that unless I had two monitors side by side, calibrated identically and displaying the exact same image, I would likely be happy with both monitors. Having nothing to compare against, even subjectively, can leave one feeling satisfied. If Budweiser were the only beer in the world it would be the best beer in the world. I did find the foloowing recent article (very lengthy and somewhat illuminating). http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/lcd-guide.html http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/20-21inch-2.html http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/20-21inch-3.html Tom C. >From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: LCD Monitor Questions >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:35:00 -0500 > >On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:16:06PM -0700, Tom C wrote: > > If so, it wasn't the one I asked. > > > > While I have no doubt that an 8-bit monitor is "technically" superior to >a > > 6-bit monitor, since no picture contains anywhere near 16 million >colors, I > > would bet huge amounts that an individual could not tell simply by >looking > > at the image on two side by side LCD's if one was 6-bit vs. 8-bit. > > > > Tom C. > >An 8-bit per component monitor can (in theory) display 2^24 different >colours, >while a 6-bit monitor can display 2^18. That's 16.7m vs 262144 (0.2m, not >16.2). > >While your eye is probably only capable of differentiating between at most >2^18 >different colours, these are not uniformly spread across the 2^18 colours >that >a 6-bit monitor could display. You are most likely to see problems in dark >areas of the screen, where you'll see blocking up of the colours. > >It depends on the individual and the image, of course, but the difference >will be detectable on well-set-up monitors viewed under good conditions. > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
