How come we still have monitor gamma diversity in these LCD days?
Four main things I can think of: a) people set their own contrast and brightness differently, and that makes a huge difference; b) the Mac/PC differences in both encoding and decoding gamma are still there; c) LCDs vary even more widely in producing nonlinear signal:response terms than CRTs, and not all calibration is done perfectly; d) people's eyes/perceptions/tastes are different. And then there's a small bonus number of people who go mucking about in their monitor's gamma settings by hand, but that's probably a smaller effect.
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Date: 2008-10-25 12:51 am (UTC)Four main things I can think of: a) people set their own contrast and brightness differently, and that makes a huge difference; b) the Mac/PC differences in both encoding and decoding gamma are still there; c) LCDs vary even more widely in producing nonlinear signal:response terms than CRTs, and not all calibration is done perfectly; d) people's eyes/perceptions/tastes are different. And then there's a small bonus number of people who go mucking about in their monitor's gamma settings by hand, but that's probably a smaller effect.