karl shah-jenner wrote:
David writes:
: karl shah-jenner wrote:
: > I'd reiterate that a $1000 2D video card is a very normal addition to a pro photographers computer.
:
: That one surprises me. Because I've seen lots of people talking about
: their pro setups, and there's been a recent discussion of building your
: own computer over on the D1scussion mailing list (Nikon digital mailing
: list, heavily inhabited by pros), and *not one* person has suggested any
: such thing for a video card.
have a peek here: "A VIDEO CARD PRIMER "
http://photoweasel.diaryland.com/
Oh, I know people are still pushing that line, but it's pretty outdated
now so far as I can tell. You pretty much can't *buy* CRTs (except for
at really absurd prices -- and if you're up for the absurd prices, you
can now buy LCDs that have a bigger color gamut than any CRT; in fact,
that display a bit MORE than the full Adobe RGB space). And they still
take only 8-bit data. (Some clever people set up to use LED
illumination behind the LCD, and then used colored LEDs and matched the
LCD filter frequencies to the LED output and ended up with huge gamut.
NEC I know, possibly others use this too.)
And yeah, the most aggressive games cards do tend to trade off color
fidelity for frame rate, probably a good choice for their intended
market but a disaster for us. Although I'm not sure if they do that
when displaying simple bitmap data rather than rendering 3D on the card?
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