Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 11:51 PM 31-03-97 EST, Ted wrote: >[snip] > >>It seems that if everyone had identicle monters then it would be a piece of >>cake. and Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> wrote: >This assumes that everybody sets the same contrast and brightness levels on >the monitors, [snip] >It is true that some monitors only support 256 colours (or perhaps only 12, >for that matter), whereas my page (and most pages with colour photographs) >requires at least 64K of colours, but this isn't the issue I was alluding to. Brightness/contrast controls and the number of colors probably are the biggest causes of the problems. I've seen an image made with a Kodak DC-40 digital camera look very different on the same computer/monitor just by changing the monitor setting from millions of colors to thousands of colors. I'm sure pictures derived from high quality negative scans would show even more of a difference. I sure wish we had a negative scanner where I work. Maybe it's time to start begging again. As far as brightness and contrast, people don't even bother to set it correctly on their TVs, much less their computer monitors. Different types of monitors are going to look different too and different types of graphic software will show differences. About all you can really hope for is that the person at the receiving end of the image has the good sense to tweek it properly. Michael Bell MBell@mail.utexas.edu