So OT and yet so relevant to this group.
I like less color saturation on a television screen, to the dismay of many
people over the years.  It's really funny when I see someone's TV having primary
red for skintones and greens for grass or leaves I can't see in the real things.
All I have to do is look at the stuff around the TV to know things aren't that
vividly colored.  It's as though people want to be looking into a screen with
natural-times-3 color, a sort of neon light reality.  Back in the days of
Black&White television I guess the debate was how gray or how black and white it
ought to be.
Many times I tried to adjust peoples sets or at least try to convince them of
their misguidance and I would get turned away from my attempts.
Right this minute I'm in a room with one energy-saving fluorescent type bulb
overhead (made to look incandescent though) and the increase in the redness of
everything makes it look like sunset inside here at night.  Doesn't matter
though, I would still compensate and tone the red down on the TV or monitor,
which looks fairly blue.  Artificial lighting could be the most common cause of
the discrepancies, and even filtered daylight being very blue when artificial
lighting isn't used might tend to make a phosphorescent screen lack in color I
guess.
Anyway, I couldn't get that test image to work right I think.  It had me setting
the brightness down all the way to see it as instructed.
The POV-Ray gamma gif test had shown 2.1 as the best fit.

Bob

"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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|
| Mike Weber wrote:
| >
| > I like looking at the images readers submit here... but what I find in most
| > is that they are so dark and difficult to see.  Is it that most are
| > modelling and rendering by the glow of the CRT and I have a bright room?
| >
| > Mike
|
| Most use the gamma excuse but I personaly think most computer users
| generaly have their brightness and contrast controls turned up too
| high. To compensate for this they use lower ambient and diffuse
| settings than would those who have their monitor controls set properly.
|
|   A good example of this can also be seen in the way people adjust
| the controls on their TV's. I cannot even begin to remember the
| number of friends houses I have visited where they have the color
| adjustments over driven and the brightness and contrast controls
| set way to high for comfortable viewing levels. People in the
| TV and monitor repair business often complain of the same kind
| of consumer abuse and would actually prefer that there were no
| user settable controls on these types of equipment. If they can
| be abused they will be 9 out of 5 times by people that just don't
| know what they are doing.
|
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