Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01

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Subject: Re:Photo and monitors
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:24:10 -0500

At 09:36 AM 01-04-97 +0000, Jose Luis wrote:
>It seems that the reason behind the different reproduction  of the same
>picture on different monitors is a matter of gamma, the Mac is
>calibrated with a gamma of 1.8 and PC with s gamma of 2.2. Consequence, 
>you adjust  the image in a Mac screen, but when viewed on a PC screen it
>looks darker.  From PC to Mac  is just the inverse. Solution: if you
>work on a Mac switch to Gamma 2.2  and adjust tones to the vast majority
>of computers installed PCs.

I apoligize for possibly repeating myself, but I suspect that most computer
users make arbitrary adjustments to the brightness and contrast settings on
their monitors that throw all talk of correct gamma out the window.  They
fiddle with the controls until things look good.

Dan C.