Digital BW, The Print

Within the context of the exchange Paul and I were having, I can't
place the relevance of this.
But hey, have at it!
A little wine with that trout?
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Actually that's a bit circular.  LAB is designed with a definition of L
> (named luminance) and a gamma such that L increases uniformly as we step
> from pure white to pure black.  When we look at L values, for say
Gray Gamma
> 2.2, we simply find that they don't have the same characteristic. 
But in
> the end, its simply all about gamma...ahhh contrast!
> 
> 
> > From: Steve Kale <stevekale@b...>
> 
> 
> 
> > LAB simply has a gamma that leads to nice equal increments in
> > luminance.