[Tig] MacBook Pro colorimetry

[Fancourt McDonald]

IIRC all Macbooks/Pro/Air and generally all notebooks run 6bit panels. 
 
Justin M.
CE
Brisbane.> From: bob at bluescreen.com> To: tig at tig.colorist.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:55:24 -0800> Subject: Re: [Tig] MacBook Pro colorimetry> > TIGNABFS08 - NAB for 2008> http://colorist.org/wiki3/index.php/TIGNABFS08> Thanks to Cintel for support in 2008> ====> > > >I have a LED-backlit MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa). By looking at its ICC> >profile, you could see that the color gamut is significantly smaller> >than Rec. 709 / sRGB. Colorsync will apply color management to map> >colors inside... there are some banding-like artifacts on gradients.> >There is this clipping-like effect if you have gradients going into> >full saturation.> >> >I presume this is because the MBP uses only white LEDs, not LEDs for> >red green and blue. I'm guessing this is to make the screen brighter> >(helpful in laptops) and color uniformity would be easier to achieve.> > Is it possible that the panel is eight bits (or even, heaven forbid, six), and> that's what's causing the narrow gamut and banding on grads?> > --Bob> > Bob Kertesz> BlueScreen LLC> Hollywood, California> bob at bluescreen.com> > The Ultimate in ULTIMATTE® compositing. > For details, visit http://www.bluescreen.com> > _______________________________________________> No personal abuse; absolutely no advertising or marketing on the main TIG mailinglist. Emergency> tig contact address is rob (at) calarts.edu> Tig mailing list> Tig at tig.colorist.org> http://tig.colorist.org/mailman/listinfo/tig
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