Web Gamma and Monitors

jonnyh1968

jonnyh1968

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Two part question if shooting for the web:

1) What is a good stand alone monitor that will take the 1394 signal and present your image as RGB? or just like it would look on a LCD display after you brought your footage over and into FCP. Is 1394 the way to do it?

2) It seems the Gamma curve for LCD RGB is flatter than say HD or DV Y,CR, CB. What gamma could be used to compenstate for that and hence keep a nice contrasty image? Say a studio environment with tundsten lighting.

Thanks,
Jonathan
 
The gamma you use really depends on what you are trying to replicate. I believe the gamma itself is set by the operating system not the monitor. PCs running windows have a default of 2.2 which most closely mimicks a CRT TV. Macs are usually set to 1.8. What is your purpose though?
 
I guess I'm trying to bring up the brightness and contrast. Footage looks great on a CRT TV but the LCD computer monitor seems so flat. It's almost like I need to shoot at a stop higher than what looks good on a field monitor. Is it a function of the RGB conversion process that I need to understand?
 
I know what you mean and it's most likely attributable to several factors:

1) An un-calibrated monitor
2) The poor definition in black LCDs exhibit. They crush blacks and is one reason they have proven to be poor choices for color work (though they are improving).
3) LCDs don't often have the same brightness capabilities of CRTs causing this effect.

Just my best guess anyway :)
 
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