Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have exactly the same monitor - Eizo ColorEdge CE240W - and I'm using Windows 10. I can't see any difference. At first, I thought the second one was slightly better in the shadows but I enlarged it and decided it was my imagination. They look exactly the same. Tina On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:50 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > Brian, I use a color-calibrated ColorEdge CE240W (although I have not > refreshed the color ICC on this PC for a while). In any case, the 2nd one > has better shadow separations, more values in ZONE II and III. > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:01 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > wrote: > > > I've been looking into complaints that the LUG gallery is muddying many > > images that Bill Clough is posting. They don't look muddy to me, but I > > believe the people who say that they see mud. > > > > After some research, I determined that the majority of his images in the > > gallery are tagged with the ICC profile "Gray gamma 2.2", which is put > > there by his film scanner. I have a profile by that name on my computer, > > so when I clicked on his images, the conversion was done correctly by my > > image viewing software and I saw what he intended. > > > > I wonder how many LUG people are seeing mud. Do you see any significant > > difference between the image quality of these two images: > > > > A: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/486424-2/Harvest_+Estes+Park_+1987.jpg > > > > B: > > http://reid.org/~brian/images/Estes%20Park%20with%20sRGB%20profile.jpg > > > > On my screen, those images look very similar but not totally identical. > > I guess it depends on which software component is doing the color > > transformation. > > > > If you don't see much of a difference, that means that your computer is > > dealing successfully with the unusual but not illegal profile "Gray > > gamma 2.2", which is intended as a Photoshop preview-mode pseudo-profile > > and not an imbedded profile. I guess nobody told this to the > > manufacturer of Bill's scanner. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > // richard http://imagecraft.com > Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... > JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>