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This is mostly for my own notes, but I welcome feedback. I just suspect that most people won't care. :-)
I have a new LCD monitor at work (yay!). Every monitor is a little different, so I am once again playing with settings. This monitor offers a great variety of things I can twiddle, and I don't fully understand the impact of some of them. So right now I'm tinkering, but I would welcome suggestions from those with clues here about combinations of settings that would be suitable (specific goals below). For example, I haven't been able to characterize the color impact of brightness and contrast, but there seems to be some. Some of you gave me a bunch of advice when I was experimenting with this a year or so ago, so no need to repeat anything there. (The main thing I take from the prior discussion is that color temperature is probably where the action is.)
I can set: brightness, contrast, color temperature (individual RGB values), gamma (3 pre-defined and unnamed modes), and three independent mysterious numeric parameters under an "image" menu (course, fine, sharpness). (I couldn't see any obvious impact from changing these.) There are also three pre-set color combinations (white point??), called cool (blue), normal, and warm (red); I've bypassed those for the "custom" option (RGB values). "Cool" is definitely too blue and warm seems awfully red.
My current settings are:
Brightness 30
Contrast 90
Gamma: "mode 3" (the one I parse as darkest)
R: 70
G: 70
B: 60
My main goal is to keep the bright white pixels from screaming at me quite so much as they currently do (specifically: black text on white background is harsh; it wasn't so great on the CRT monitor either), while maintaining sufficient contrast and getting colors that are as close to normal as I can achieve. It appears that the absolute RBB values, and not just the ratios among them, matter for overall brightness; I'm not sure yet how that interacts with the brightness control.
I'll try replicating the settings I use at home (also an LCD monitor) at work, but won't be back in the office to try until Tuesday.
I have a new LCD monitor at work (yay!). Every monitor is a little different, so I am once again playing with settings. This monitor offers a great variety of things I can twiddle, and I don't fully understand the impact of some of them. So right now I'm tinkering, but I would welcome suggestions from those with clues here about combinations of settings that would be suitable (specific goals below). For example, I haven't been able to characterize the color impact of brightness and contrast, but there seems to be some. Some of you gave me a bunch of advice when I was experimenting with this a year or so ago, so no need to repeat anything there. (The main thing I take from the prior discussion is that color temperature is probably where the action is.)
I can set: brightness, contrast, color temperature (individual RGB values), gamma (3 pre-defined and unnamed modes), and three independent mysterious numeric parameters under an "image" menu (course, fine, sharpness). (I couldn't see any obvious impact from changing these.) There are also three pre-set color combinations (white point??), called cool (blue), normal, and warm (red); I've bypassed those for the "custom" option (RGB values). "Cool" is definitely too blue and warm seems awfully red.
My current settings are:
Brightness 30
Contrast 90
Gamma: "mode 3" (the one I parse as darkest)
R: 70
G: 70
B: 60
My main goal is to keep the bright white pixels from screaming at me quite so much as they currently do (specifically: black text on white background is harsh; it wasn't so great on the CRT monitor either), while maintaining sufficient contrast and getting colors that are as close to normal as I can achieve. It appears that the absolute RBB values, and not just the ratios among them, matter for overall brightness; I'm not sure yet how that interacts with the brightness control.
I'll try replicating the settings I use at home (also an LCD monitor) at work, but won't be back in the office to try until Tuesday.
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Gamma is the most important measurement here.