On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 March 2013 07:54, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I suspect that "wide gamut" means 16bit quantization for the display >> device rather than 8bit. I've seen this debate on other forums. IMO, >> this kind of wide gamut display configuration only makes sense to work >> with if you were also working with a high-end printer that could also >> image 16bit data quantization on output, and that was your intent. It >> doesn't make sense to work on a wide gamut configured display if the >> output target is other displays, 99% of which are going to be >> configured as 8bit quantization devices. > > A "wide gamut" monitor generally provides a wider colour gamut than > described by the sRGB colourspace and is often poorly specified as a > percentage of the AdobeRGB colour space. The granularity is all that > the screen bit depth effects.
Yes, I do understand the difference between color space and bit depth, it seems though that they're linked in practical terms. I've only seen 'wide gamut' specs for displays which support greater than 8bit per component channels, usually 12 or 16 bit. And I maintain that using device neutral color profiles for a display device (like sRGB and Adobe RGB) isn't the right thing to do. Use a color profile which models a particular hardware device at a specific calibration; it's the only correct way to configure a display for color managed work. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
