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2 May 2024 12:20:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gamma - The Smoking Gun  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Dec 2016 00:21:26
Message: <585f5756$1@news.povray.org>
Am 24.12.2016 um 22:01 schrieb Dave Blandston:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> - Another potential factor is that you may simply have gotten accustomed
>> to the excessive contrast of non-linear scenes over the years, and may
>> now be expecting more contrast than is realistic. (Reality is rarely
>> "moody" -- even professional photographers routinely "cheat" on such
>> scenes, from employing tinted spotlights to choosing a highly non-linear
>> photographic film to applying tonemapping in a post-processing step.)
> 
> That's probably what has happened. Obviously you have shown that gamma 1.0 is
> mathematically correct and that is very important to know. It's hard to resist
> the richer, more dramatic colors that gamma 2.2 produces though!

It may get easier once tonemapping is officially added to POV-Ray.


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