[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?

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

> Most monitors can't come anywhere close to displaying even 24-bit color, and
> none manage it completely.  Higher color depths look exactly the same on the
> monitor.  The only advantage to higher color depths is the headroom they
> provide for manipulation (although this is a crucial advantage); you can't
> see the difference on the screen.

Can you point me to literature/web that details why this is
so? I am assuming that as an analogue device, that the electrons
hitting the phosphors are the limiting component in determining
colour capability - the number of dots/ and quality of phosphor is
the problem? And also, what determines the number of colours
when graphics DACs have been limited to 8 bits per channel, have
the testers been using specialised hardware to drive the electron
guns to create a broader spectral test base?

Again, I can remember the same points being made of monitors and
flashy 16 bit (655)  depth cards way back when.

bert

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