Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Johny, It seems there is a misunderstanding on the gamma concept. It represents a correction that one gives to the video display set. The fact that it might be different for Mac's and Pc's is irrelevant, IMHO. The idea is that you apply a given gamma to get the *same* display of a given picture though you video system reacts differently from your neighbor's one. IMHO again, low key or not low key, your pictures should present a sufficient range of brigthness values. This is independent from gamma. After that, viewer should apply a gamma correction that suit any image he can see, not specially yours. On a stricly practical point, I find, like Chandos, that you pictures are too dark, a problem I don't have with other sites. All the best, - -- Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE) Lyon, France http://www.jcberger.com > on 4/6/00 10:48 pm, Chandos Michael Brown at cmbrow@mail.wm.edu wrote: > > > Frankly, I find these impossibly dark--which may be a question of gamma, > > but, then, why should a viewer have to fiddle with his/her monitor to look > > at your images? > > Well, you tell me how you keep viewers on mac, windows 98, windows 2000, > with or without colorsync, happy? Gammas varying between 1.8 and 2.2... with > low-key images there is simply no way to keep everyone happy. Many of the > images are delibarately very low key but not meant to be 'impossibly' so... > check your platform-dependent solipsism at the door and crank up the > brightness, if you're that concerned. > > -- > Johnny Deadman