I got a MAC monitor.

Yeah, dude. I have only seen Apple displays configured to Apple computers. Like this:
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::sigh:: The iSight needs a white balance...
 
Better gamma than windows? How do ya figure?
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Well, it's really a matter of taste. But the Mac gamma is warmer and brighter. Windows gamma is colder, bluer, darker. I think Mac gamma is very similar to the DVX gamma. Actors look warm, saturated, more alive.
 
That is true, Paul. I designed my website on a Mac (it is all I use) and my friend was on a PC looking at the site and it looked lifeless.
 
An older model ouch.

Yea that might not be compatible with a PC. Let us know what model and such when you can find out.

Don't the mac monitors provide power over the same cable the image signal is sent over? I don't think it will work with a PC.
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I don't know this for a fact but i thought i knew someone in college who used a DVI to VGA adapter and was able to use an Apple display with his PC with no problems.

I don't know about the older mac monitors but the newer cinema displays have one cable that splinters into a DVI, 2 USBs, and a fourth cable that plugs into this little brick that can then plug into a standard 3-prong outlet.
 
korimickster said:
That is true, Paul. I designed my website on a Mac (it is all I use) and my friend was on a PC looking at the site and it looked lifeless.
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O man, true. When I forget to balance for both, someone will see my work on a Windows system and...:embarasse
 
Paul Coleman said:
Well, it's really a matter of taste. But the Mac gamma is warmer and brighter. Windows gamma is colder, bluer, darker. I think Mac gamma is very similar to the DVX gamma. Actors look warm, saturated, more alive.
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That statement, while true for the number of Grandmas out there that don't know how to calibrate a monitor makes absolutly no sense. If you are working on a monitor that is not actually calibrated, and yes I mean if you are just using the mac or PC presets, then it doesn't matter how good it looks on your monitor becasue it will never look the same on any other monitor. The only thing you can do is calibrate your monitor and hope to god that people looking at your website are viewing through a calibrated monitor. To that effect PC or MAC, the monitor should always be calibrated exactly the same. While mics tend to use a brighter gamma by default 1.8 vs 2.2 for PC, that shouldn't make anything warmer or cooler. I work on Macs and PCs and have them all calibrated exactly the same way ( the right way).
 
...while true for the number of Grandmas out there that don't know how to calibrate a monitor...
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Yes, but most people are Grandmas. :) Most people basically leave their gamma wherever the PC maker set it. So I try to work within those limits as best I can. But there is no real standard.
 
But that's just it. There is a standard. If you work on a monitor that is un-calibrated, then what you are seeing on your own monitor isn't true either. By working on a calibrated monitor it works out best for everyone. People with uncalbrated monitors will see what they are accustomed to seeing. If their monitor is slightly blue and dark, everything they see is blue and dark. All I'm saying is that stating that a Mac monitor has a better "Gamma" than a PC monitor does not make any sense as neither are actually correct.
 
All I'm saying is that stating that a Mac monitor has a better "Gamma" than a PC monitor does not make any sense as neither are actually correct.
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I think we are basically on the same page; it's a matter of taste (as I said in a previous post). I can't say Panasonic gamma curves are 'better' than Canon. But I much prefer Panny.

I work on a calibrated Mac, but I also test on uncalibrated displays. There is a standard, but not in the real world. The theory only works if people calibrate. But I would say 90% of computer users don't calibrate. The only thing I've ever seen work is checking the image on multiple uncalibrated monitors.

For me, there is no 'real image'. The only accurate 'image' is the data on a Waveform Monitor or a Vectorscope. But when it comes to consumer displays, it's just a crapshoot.:beer:
 
I used to use a mac monitor years ago and had to get a special adapter to make it work. It had all these switches on it and you had to figure which one was up or down to make it work.
 
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