[WinMac] Re: Darker PC graphics than Mac graphics?

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:32:28 -0500

        Walter:

        I doubt that many users today are still stuck on 16 colors (VGA palette).
256 colors is a different story, especially in the target audience of
college students. Yes, they may have the latest VooDoo 8 megabyte AGP video
card in their brand new 450 mHz Gagway computer in their dorm room with an
ethernet Internet connection; but when they play Quake II the color palette
is dropped from 32 bits down to 8 bits... And it just may get left there.

        ON TO ANOTHER, YET RELATED SUBJECT:

        I've used the Light Source ColorTron II 32 band spectrophotometer color
measurement tool and monitor calibrator for about 2 years now. Problem is,
Light Source went under, but its assets were bought out by X-Rite
 <http://www.x-rite.com> in Michigan. In addition to new v2.52 MacOS
(G3/8.5.1 compatible) software, they introduced Windows software that also
supports the ColorTron II. They also changed/added to the ADB interface to
include a combo RS-232/RS-422 (Mac & PC) cable set that snaps in.

        I highly recommend the ColorTron spectrophotometer and the related
ColorShop software.

        Cheers!
        Dan

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At 01:15 AM 2/26/99 -0500, Walter Knapp wrote:
>Alex Dearden wrote:
>>
>> >This is a greater deal in photography for the web. Not only will the
>> >gamma vary quite a bit in different PC's, but the color balance may also
>> >be different i.e. the "gamma" for each color differs. Think about
>> >putting up web pages of instructions for lab tests (as my wife does) and
>> >the reading is made by the exact color/brightness found in the test
>> >tube. Best she's found is to specify the gamma and OS on the page.
>>
>> How about your wife using Pantone colors to designate the color it should
>> be? That way, even though they wouldn't match on the screen, you just
>> pick your Pantone chips and it's the same color all the time?
>
>The simple problem there is that these are a bunch of scientists and
>doctors. You say Pantone to them, you get blank looks. In fact that's
>probably true for most people on the web. Specing the gamma and saying
>they were built on a mac seems to work ok for her case. Except for the
>ones that can't understand why it does not come out right on a monitor
>displaying 16 or 256 colors! We also do a lot of careful comparison of
>how they look at different gammas and color depths. It's easy to switch
>gamma around on a mac.
>
>Walt
>wwknapp@mindspring.com

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