Topic awaiting preservation: Can you tell the difference between X, Y and Z

I'm curious.

I was reading an article at dpreview.com and, at the bottom of it, the guy says that "DPReview calibrate (shouldn't it be calibrates?) their monitors ..., this means that on our monitors we can make out the difference between all of the ... grayscale blocks below. ... you should be able to see the difference ... between X,Y and Z and ideally A,B and C."

Here's the .gif file:



Tell me, what is the last block that you still can make out the difference from the previoius one?

In my case, since I like to adjust my monitor a little dark, to protect my eyes (I'm still using a CRT monitor), that would be block "V". I can increase brightness to be able to see all blocks differently, but I don't like the overall look of the image. Too bright.

I can differentiate all the blocks from each other on my work laptop. I'll check my home monitor when I get there.

:::11oh1:::

I've got my monitor adjusted what I thought was a little bit darker than the 'standard', but I can see the difference between all of the blocks. The difference between A and B, and Y and Z are small and I doubt that I would have tought about it if I didn't know it was supposed to be there.

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A and B are very close but distinguishable here, XY and Z are very distinct on the flat panel, suprisingly much the same in my CRT, tho the CRT is a bit off in other ways for sure, darker overall I think.

On my Samsung SyncMaster 192V, The difference between A and B and Y and Z are really subtle. At first sight they look the same but when I focus around them I can distinguish the 2 shades.

On my POS here at work I can see the diff between A and B but XYZ are all pretty much the same.


Interestingly there is a difference between X and Z but Y blurs between the two.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

They're all distinguishable for me on a CRT. Guess that means my monitor is properly calibrated Woohoo.

"Nothin' like a pro-stabbin' from a pro." -Weadah

A and B show a very subtle difference that i wouldn't have been able to distinguish if i hadn't been looking for them to be different, but Y and Z are easily distinguishable.
i have a 19" crt monitor (it's a beast).

I see that some of you have 19" monitors, probably LCD, probably set to 1280 x 1024 resolution. Unless your monitor is a widescreen model, it should be a regular fullscreen 4x3 model. But the resolution 1280 x 1024, common to such monitors as the native resolution, is not in the same proportion.

So my question is: when you have such a monitor, set to such a resolution, when you see a circle in the screen, does it look like a circle or like an oval format?



PS - I'm asking this question because I'm about to change my monitor and I don't want to have a monitor that shows an ellipse when it was supposed to show a circle.

I can differentiate the difference perfectly on both my laptop LCD and external LCD.

viol: Since I have an LCD monitor, I'm stuck to its physical resolution that is 1280x1024 ( 5:4 ) though I'd prefer 1280x960 ( for its 4:3 ratio ). Nonetheless I don't see your picture as an oval. It's not surprising since the difference of aspect ratio between 1280x1024 and 1280x960 is ~7% so with those high resolutions it's really hard to notice a difference without a 4:3 monitor as reference nearby.



[This message has been edited by poi (edited 02-25-2004).]

i have a LCD monitor, i have 1280*1024, and this circle looks like a circle

The circle wouldn't appear as an oval because it's a fixed size 120 x 120 px. Regardless of what resolution you're using, it's always going to be a circle.

The reason why some things appear stretched (such as windows) in 1280x1024 is because they used percentages instead of a fixed size.

"Nothin' like a pro-stabbin' from a pro." -Weadah

Viol: I was also worried about aspect ratio issues when I got my 1280x1024 monitor. The only place it has ever mattered is in games, but only in small ways.

That circle is a perfect circle because the monitor's physical aspect ratio matches its pixel aspect ratio.

The issue with getting a 1280x1024 LCD monitor is that you're stuck at that resolution no matter what you do. But so far, I haven't regretted getting it over the 1024x768 ones.

Yes I can tell the difference, this monitor must be around 52bit, I dunno, they locked the properties.


[This message has been edited by Yannah (edited 02-26-2004).]

It's 3:55am and all I see is a big fat blur form white to black... oh... wait... nup. Still a big fat blur.

I think I need sleep, or glasses, or a new monitor (this pokey ol 15" from the late 90's is showing it's age). Eh, I'll sleep on it.