Re: [MLUG] good mobo for simple system?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Mark Rages wrote:

> On 8/10/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Davis, Jared Scott wrote:
> > Viewsonic with colors.  The Hanns tends to be too brightly colorful.  I
> > can't seem to adjust that.  I don't know quite how to describe this issue
> > in the images -- in some ways I like them better but I think the colors
> > are brighter than they are supposed to be.
>
> Gamma.  CRT monitors have a nonlinear response to the input voltage. 
> Computer graphics are encoded with this nonlinearity built-in.  So LCD 
> panels have to fake it.  This parameter is called 'gamma'.  Some LCDs do 
> better than others.  Macs have a carefully calibrated gamma, and are 
> more consistent in color reproduction (important to the graphic design 
> crowd).  You can probably adjust gamma in your display preferences. 
> Just like TVs, the default tends to be eye-popping color, not natural 
> color.  This is to "stand out" in the store display.  Naturally, 
> everyone does this until new TVs default to day-glo "vivid" colors.

I'm sure you're on to something there.  Looking at the manual, I see 
nothing about gamma correction.  I cannot adjust it.


> > I will say that the Hanns beats the Viewsonic on whites and grays 
> > because the Viewsonic is a little yellow and not quite as fully white 
> > as the Hanns.  I don't see a single dead pixel nor a single always-on 
> > pixel on the Hanns.
>
> Color temperature.  Color temperature is a shorthand way of speicifying 
> the white balance in a single number.  I'll bet your two monitors are 
> set to different color temperatures.

Ah -- I thought I had the Viewsonic set to 9300k, but it was set to 6500k. 
When I set it to 9300k it was more like the Hanns set to "Warm" (9300K 
according to the manual).  So that was part of the difference, but not an 
important part really.  The color saturation issue remains.  It looks 
kinda cool though -- because of the vivid color, the Hanns might even be 
better than the Viewsonic for cartoons and games but it is definitely not 
as good for photos, for me, but I can imagine people preferring it because 
it is so vivid.  I think reds are especially enhanced on the Hanns.

Mike

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