POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: What's my gamma?: Re: What's my gamma?

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From: clipka
Date: 5 Jun 2010 10:06:48
Message: <4c0a59f8$1@news.povray.org>

Am 05.06.2010 01:46, schrieb SharkD:
> I have a new flatscreen monitor from eMachines and am running Win7
> 64bit. According to the nVidia control panel my gamma is 1.0. Is that
> the value I should use in INI settings?

Most likely not.

Try the inbuilt help of POV-Ray 3.6 about gamma - you'll find a test 
image there to assess what effective gamma your display system (OS + 
graphics card drivers + graphics card hardware + flatscreen hard- and 
firmware) really has. I'd expect somewhere around 2.0 to 2.4.

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