[Leica] What gamma are y'all using for Mac monitors these days?

[lwwesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)]

Jeff,

2.2 gamma,  D65 white point for me.

Leo



On 3/21/07, Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org> wrote:
>
> After a few years using a couple of generations of the kind-of-okay
> Spyder color-calibration gizmos, Kathryn and I have bitten the financial
> bullet and scored ourselves a fancy X-Rite (nee Gretag-Macbeth) Eye-One
> Pro, hoping to calibrate monitors *and* printers properly.
>
> While doing the monitor recalibration, I looked up a few references and
> saw some folk recommending running the display at that nasty dark 2.2
> gamma Windows PCs are so fond of using, instead of the Mac-traditional
> 1.8.  Is this some sort of trend, or did I just run across a few bum
> leads?  If one's using proper color-managed applications and tagged
> images, should it even make a difference?  The display's target gamma is
> encoded somewhere in the profile such that it can be compensated for,
> right?
>
> Confused in Jersey City.
>
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