[MacDV] Gamma Settings and PC Monitors

Bruce Pillman bpillman at rochester.rr.com
Fri Apr 23 03:04:40 PDT 2004


The best tutorial I've seen is at:

http://www.poynton.com/GammaFAQ.html

To some extent, yes. LCDs really don't behave much like CRTs.
The LCD displays strive to mimic CRT-like behavior to achieve some
amount of compatibility, but it's generally a mess.


On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 06:23 PM, Chris Searles wrote:
>
> 1) Does anyone know of a good tutorial which explains these things in 
> more detail?
>
> 2) Do these differences in gamma values also hold true for PC laptop 
> users, i.e are PC TFTs inherently darker than those of Macs because 
> they have a different gamma value?



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