On Jun 4, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Thibouille wrote: > IPS doesn't mean good. IPS does mean 'not crap'. A tad different IMO. > Colour restitution capabilities and uniformity are not there just > because those are IPS panels.
But the new iMac IPS monitors are quite good by all accounts. I've been very satisfied with the performance of the iMac 27 monitor. Paul > > 2011/6/4 Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: >> Some are. The larger iMac screens, eg 24" and up, are IPS displays which >> don't exhibit the banding. The older iMacs and all the Mac notebooks have TN >> displays which do show banding. That's why I have a secondary IPS LCD >> monitor on my iMac that I do all my image editing on. >> >> -bmw >> >> On 11-06-04 5:17 AM, Thibouille wrote: >>> >>> Mmm not sure it is the graphics card. >>> It is most probably the screen. And no, Mac screens are no better than >>> PC screens :( >>> >>> 2011/6/3 Tim Bray<tb...@textuality.com>: >>>> >>>> Hah, the plot thickens. I can see the banding perfectly clearly on my >>>> everyday MacBook Pro. But on our big high-quality NEC monitor, I >>>> can't. But even on the big monitor, I can see the bands in that .png >>>> file. >>>> >>>> Interesting because this is the first time there's actually been an >>>> observable effect of the fairly limited graphics card in the laptop. >>>> Thanks everyone for making me take a second look. -T >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Bob Sullivan<rf.sulli...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Tim, >>>>> I don't see the banding either. >>>>> When I've had this kind of problem, >>>>> the banding was caused by display resolution. >>>>> Regards, Bob S. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Charles Robinson<charl...@visi.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:47, Larry Colen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:11 AM, Tim Bray wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Check out >>>>>>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/01/-big/RUNE0790.jpg.html >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Look at the green bokeh-fied background and observe the obvious lines >>>>>>>> that look like elevation lines on a map, let's call them "bars", as >>>>>>>> the green brightness drops off. They ain't there in the .dng, and >>>>>>>> after the first cut, I specified 100% JPG quality and they're still >>>>>>>> obvious. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It gets weird... I took a screen grab of the Lightroom window, in >>>>>>>> which none of those bars are visible, and saved to a .png file, using >>>>>>>> built-in OS X facilities, the PNG created by Preview. Obvious bars! >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> put it online at http://www.tbray.org/tmp/screen-grab.png - I thought >>>>>>>> .png was uncompressed! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm sure that a silky-smooth jpg of this picture could be created. >>>>>>>> But I don't know how. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It's not too bad here. I wonder if you're pulling an Ann and have >>>>>>> something set to too few bits. >>>>>>> >>>>>> I'm having the same issue - I cannot see the isobars/lines/whatever at >>>>>> all. Silky-smooth on my screen (Chrome browser on a Macbook) >>>>>> >>>>>> -Charles >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com >>>>>> Minneapolis, MN >>>>>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>>>>> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>>> follow the directions. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs > ---------------------- > Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, > DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ > KX, MX, SuperA+Motor, Z1, P30 > Mamiya C330+80/2.8 > Sekonic L-208 > FalconEyes TE300D x2 Studio flashes > > Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 > > Programing: Delphi 2009 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
