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2 May 2024 12:12:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gamma - The Smoking Gun  
From: Dave Blandston
Date: 24 Dec 2016 16:05:00
Message: <web.585ee227f869f0896ae7df010@news.povray.org>
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!

Regards,
Dave Blandston


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