Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/29

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Subject: [Leica] Cat hoping
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:22:12 -0400

Goeff writes:
"Tina you certainly can't edit in anticipation of what your photos might
look

like on the world range of screens of course! Most especially laptop screens

of any kind.

Applying any new gamma curve to shift the mid-tones or adjusting contrast

globally on your shot as is won't add any tonal values naturally."


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Goeff,

I respectfully disagree. If you are going to post your photos on the web,
you should adjust them so that they will appear satisfactorily on most
computer screens. Including laptops. Laptops have overtaken desktops in
sales volume and, in this wi-fi enabled world, most of us will be using
laptops and/or iPads for most computer tasks. In a rare concession to the PC
world Apple has adopted the PC gamma standard of 2.2. Tina's picture on my
screen looked as if it was printed on #4 paper. It could be corrected but it
required an additional step. On the other hand most pictures in the LUG
gallery appear fine. Brian must be using some form of high tech magic to get
them to reproduce so well.

Larry Z