[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?

["Robert Logan" <bert_logan@btopenworld.com>]

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> About the only thing I can think of that all photo editing stations need,
> and that gaming systems may not have, is a good 2D video card. Personally, I
> like the Matrox cards--my G450 does 2048x1536 at 72Hz, and it has no DAC
> glitches. The Millenium G450 can support dual monitors (only one color
> managed, though), and the G550 can support digitial displays.

Well, the Matorx G4xx cards are great - dualhead and all, but
Matrox have introduced something much better in their
Parhelia card. It has extremely good reports RE DAC quality
and can do 3 displays (excellent of Photoshop work). More
importantly, it can do 'gigacolor' - 10 bits per RGB channel
at the DAC. Again, phgotoshop supports this. A big improvement
for working on digital images.

And sorry - Macs dont have this yet.

Please also remember, the latest Mac is only a basic PC
with an operating system on top, and OSX is really a very
good GUI on a Unix OS underneath.

bert

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