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Re: [Digital BW] Dynamic Range Definitions and Print Tones

2002-03-29 by Martin Wesley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Dynamic Range Definitions and Print Tones


(snip)
> >
> > I tried it and the on screen image looks terribly degraded and
> > posterized in
> > comparison to 32-bit color monitor setting.
>
> Did you really set your monitor to 256 shades of gray?  I do not have that
> ability, I only have the ability to set it to 256 COLORS, not to 256
shades
> of gray...that is very different...256 colors will give you virtually no
> shades of gray.

Good point. You're right I only have three settings available 256 colors,
16-bit and 32-bit.

Martin

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