My friend is a user of an iMac with a 20 inch screen and his pictures of homes he took in Suffolk, Va weren't coming out quite right.  We found out the problem wasn't him, it was the computer he was using.  The system can only display 262,144 true colors.  The other millions of colors are a trick.  Apple uses a technology that shows similar shades at high speeds to create the illusion of the desired shade.  It works for the most part but you can see colors that don't appear smooth and that can be disconcerting.  I guess you always need to be careful with specs and who they come from.  If the pictures you are taking don't always look right, look at your monitor as well as the camera and the printer.

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4 Comments on Apple Slightly Bruised

MAY
03
2008
174,388 Points Outside Blog
Interesting view point.  People are quick to suspect everything but the obvious.
7:28pm • #1
MAY
05
2008

I also work off a IMac and it sits beside a PC.  The same images on the PC look totally different on the Mac. 

9:04pm • #2
MAY
06
2008
178,575 Points Outside Blog
There is so much that go on inside the computers it is hard to tell if the monitor is at fault, the cables, the connections, the mother board, the program you are using or the graphics card or in the case of the iMAC the software that interprets the colors. 
8:09am • #3

Apple is going through some lawsuits for misleading claims in their advertising regarding 'millions of colors' which some of their screen didn't actually have. As I understand it, the older iMac-20s are fine, and so are the brand new ones. They don't use that technology, and actually have millions of colors. It was the ones in between, and some of the MacBook Pros that had a lower quality screen.

PCs and Macs are always going to look different. Typically, the PC is going to be much darker overall. But no matter what it is, the gamma should always be corrected to get the most accurate color representation.


 
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