Different Gammas, Mac & PC
2001-08-23 by SKID Photography
Brian Mikiten wrote: > Can someone give a good explanation of why a 2.2 gamma is standard on a PC but a 1.8 on a mac? I'm doing B/W > work on a G4/PS/GF/1160/Piezo machine and trying to get things calibrated. This comes up as an issue > regularly. From what I understand from the colorsync list (and my understanding could be wrong), the 2 different monitor Gammas on the 2 different systems (Mac & PC) produce the same results, and that it's the video card interpolation in the Mac that needs to be set to 1.8 instead of 2.2 to get the same resulting monitor 'illumination'.....Or something like that. Harvey Ferdschneider partner, SKID Photography, NYC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]