Ben,
How are you finding the MacBook Air profile?
/ Roger
From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Ben Goren
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 3:20 PM
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [argyllcms] Re: Monitor profiling -- Difference between 836 and 200
patches
On Jun 19, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Wire ~ <wire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:wire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Based on the essential physics, I wouldn't guess that behavior. I'd guess the
opposite.
As far as the fundamental physics goes, you may well be right.
But the CRTs I grew up with were looooooong before the days when anybody
(except, perhaps those in research labs) even pretended to think about color
fidelity past what you could get from twisting a few knobs.
Today’s displays might not be physically inherently linear in their response,
but there’re far more layers of quality control than there ever were, and the
design — physical and digital both — is geared towards linearity. Indeed, I’m
not entirely sure I have the equipment at hand to improve upon the default
profile Apple supplies with the MacBook Air I’m typing this on — and that’s a
shaper profile.
So…it’s not so much the method that generates photons I was suggesting with the
analogy, but rather the era and sophistication of the whole package of the
technology.
b&
