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Andreas Bruckbauer on
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Thanks for the useful replies to my post. I see i got my bit numbers wrong,
the HP ZR30W is capable of delivering 10 bit per colour which generates 1.07
billion colours, (2^10)^3.
I installed ImageJ on the microscope computer and the images look just as
good in imageJ than in the Zen software. I don't think ImageJ uses fancy 10
bits for the colour, so I guess the bit depth is not so important as Vitally
pointed out.
We have the analysis workstations in the same room and I see the same
effect, so it has nothing to do with the room light, but definitely has to
do with the monitor or calibration.
When i wrote detail, i actually meant the ability to see dim and bright
features in the image, not so much the size of the features. While i think
it is definitely worth calibrating the monitor, i also found that the red
colour looks much better on the HP monitor. The following review shows how
it exceeds the Adobe 2008 colour space
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3754/a-new-30-contender-hp-zr30w-review/4To test this i put a small spectrometer in front of the monitor and it has a
nice peak at 660 nm while our other monitors have the maximum wavelength
around 620 nm. I now think it is these nice colours combined with the
brightness of 370 cd/m2 which make the images look so good!
Well it would be nice if projectors in lecture rooms would have the same
capability, until then we will have to display images in false colours to
show all the data.
Andreas