Practical applications of two commonly-used terms that are often misunderstood by photographers. When used in imaging, bit depth quantifies the number of discrete colours (hues and tones) that can be ...
Most of us don’t think twice about how displays produce color. But if you’ve ever looked at a sampling of televisions next to each other at an electronics store, you may have realized that practically ...
Back in the 1950s, when color TV was invented, everything was simple. TVs were either color or black-and-white, and you could tell at a glance which was which. Today, you can find TVs and monitors ...
Hosted on MSN
sRGB or Adobe RGB? Which color space should you use on your camera, and what's the difference?
The sRGB and Adobe RGB options on cameras both use the RGB color model, where images are made up of red, green and blue color channels. That’s how digital cameras capture colors, how computer monitors ...
sRGB (shown above right), Adobe RGB (shown above left) and NTSC all have their own colour gamut (a subset of colours) and each can display a different amount of colours within the subset. The ...
My new Dell is my first factory-calibrated monitor, and...it's not pleasing. In calibrated sRGB mode, content looks muted and dull. I guess I'm so used to wide gamut / HDR that an sRGB clamp feels ...
Different displays reproduce colours differently as they come with various colour gamut ranges. For example, if you watch a YouTube video on your smartphone and again if you watch the same video on ...
Most LCD monitors, printers, cameras and various other applications are configured to reproduce the sRGB colour gamut as accurately as possible. This means that photographers can reduce discrepancies ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results