A little more research I did led to an estimated number of colors the human eye can perceive as being 10 million, with the caveat that no one really knows.
This of course has no direct bearing on LCD monitor quality or choices. Tom C. >From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: LCD Monitor Questions >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:52:51 -0700 > >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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
