Re: Default gamma in image acquisition software

Posted by Michael Giacomelli-2 on
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My anecdotal experience is that most software made to work with RGB
cameras compensates for gamma (since colors look wrong otherwise), and
most software that uses monochrome data or point scanning does not.  I
haven't used very much commercial software however.

Mike

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:47 PM Benjamin Smith
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> I had a question about commercial/open-source image acquisition software.
> Considering that on most scientific equipment intensity is measured on a
> linear scale (on a good day), does the corresponding image software show
> that same data rendered with a default 0.45 gamma to offset the 2.2 gamma
> in the monitor (i.e. render the raw data as it would appear to the eye), or
> do they simply leave in the 2.2 gamma leading to over contrasted images as
> the default setting?
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> I searched and found a thread on the listserv from 2017 about this, but
> only in regards to cameras and monitors as opposed to the software.  In
> this case, I'm more interested in the software and what the "industry
> standard" is for displaying linear scale image data on computer monitors.
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> Thanks for any insights,
>    Ben Smith
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