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Gamma “Correction” crushing blacks, pluge etc…
Dispensing with the usual discussion of CRT vs LCD, I’m trying to get my (very nice, great color accuracy) LCD Benqs as close to “calibrated” as I can..
I have done lots of experimenting with the Spyder2, and it does seem to fix white point, etc.. and the color & saturation are damned close to my calibrated external monitor.. but FCP’s “helpful” gamma correction is knocking the blacks down way too much.. Is there any way to hack this? heaven forbid we could turn it off..
I’ve done lots of experiments with photoshop, colorspaces, etc, and I’ve determined that my LCD is plenty capable of producing a smooth gradient from 0% to 100% with only the expected 8 bit banding, and lots of experiments with pixels at 3.5%, 7.5%, etc have shown me that my monitor is plenty capable of distinguishing those blacks, but when FCP is playing video, it crushes the crap out of the bottom end– no matter what the setting, color profile, etc, the pluge is not visible– meaning FCP is crushing it long before it gets to my monitor… (but sending the raw out to the kona card)
Anything? Hack? undocumented feature?
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