Am 18.12.2012 04:39, schrieb Ive:

> But more seriously, I was always puzzled about the lack of interest in
> well calibrated viewing devices that seems so common among people within
> these newsgroups.

I guess it's mainly underestimation (due to lack of personal experience) 
what a difference a good and well-calibrated display can make.

The half-hearted support for gamma handling in older versions of POV-Ray 
might also have contributed in the past.


 > On the contrary things seem even worse now as in former times every
> calibrated mid-class CRT was already better than any contemporary
> high-end TFT.

I suspect that's not true - if only because the CRTs of former times 
were typically connected to the graphics adapter via some analog 
interface and were therefore subject to both static and dynamic signal 
distortions; suffered from both static and dynamic geometric 
distortions; and came with ergonomic problems due to inherent flickering 
and buildup of static electricity.

Of course all these problems were less prominent in mid-class CRTs than 
in low-end ones, but I suspect that it would have taken high-end 
equipment to reduce them to entirely unproblematic levels.

(BTW, just to avoid any misunderstanding: When I hear "high-end TFT" I 
think "graphics enthusiast's dream", not "gamer's dream" or some such. 
You know, the stuff that comes with an elaborate individual factory 
calibration report included.)

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