Dark image?

[azmyth]

I'm not sure if this is normal, but the image on the LCD vs. my monitor is much darker. The image on the LCD is alot brighter, and I was under the impression that what was on the LCD was what it really looked like. Is that wrong? Two different computer monitors so far, and it looks much darker on those than it does the lcd. Any reason for that?

[Jergling]

There's a sticky about this:

http://hv20.com/showthread.php?t=16511

[azmyth]

great, thanks

[Jergling]

I hope that helps, I skimmed it and found that it kind of got hijacked after a page or two. People were more interested in the overscan on the viewfinder than the color calibration.

[azmyth]

yeah, I saw that too.. it helped, but didn't help.. as I was hoping that wasn't true. the weird thing is, its lighter in vegas than it is in VLC media player.. I don't get that either. I watched some of it on tv, and it didn't look as dark as it does on my monitor.. maybe part of its my monitor.

[cgbier]

Is your monitor calibrated?

[Seo]

Gamma differences between video players, inaccuracies in LCD brightness... old news.

Don't trust anything that's not calibrated. But there's nothing any amount of calibration can do to solve the problem of the differences between video players.

[Janke]

Here's a couple of images to help you to roughly calibrate a monitor; I made them for a wikipedia forum some years ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colortest.png

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...kground%29.svg

[Pali]

But there's nothing any amount of calibration can do to solve the problem of the differences between video players.

Or video creators. I've seen some videos where the color saturation is very rich, others where it's not. Same with contrast, exposure, etc.

[Seo]

Video creators?

Do you mean the source of the video? That's a given; of course there are various discrepancies between camera models and color grading! Here, we're talking about viewing these images.