Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> Wonder why the color spaces are named Color LCD >> Instead of Color LED?!?!? > > Because they are not color LEDs. > > LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. A liquid crystal lets light > through, or > not, depending on how you apply electricity to it. But there has to be > light > to get through. That light, called "backlight", can come from a variety of > sources. The new Apple laptops use white LEDs to generate the backlight. > Earlier models used white fluorescent lights for the same purpose. > > (Never mind that there is no such thing as a white LED. For the purposes of > this discussion we can pretend that there is.) > > > That's interesting I'd assumed there were red green and blue LEDs. Is there hope for Neon?!? :) Mark William Rabiner