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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Gamma correction (was: Radiosity Image Correction)
Message-ID: <18055@celit.fps.com>
Date: 28 May 91 17:35:00 GMT
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In article <14070@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> srnelson@nelsun.Eng.Sun.COM (Scott R. Nelson) writes:
>The broadcast television industry has settled on a standard gamma value of
>2.222222 (1.0/0.45).  This has been build into television sets for
>decades.  This value happens to look correct on all properly adjusted
>monitors that I have seen.

Huh?  It seems like every color monitor I come across has a different
gamma value and some are extreme (I know of one that needs about 3.2).
Other than that, I agree with your post.  Manufacturers of RGB monitors
don't seem to be able to agree on anything.

--Bill