This really doesn't have a lot to do with Linux directly, but I didn't know where else to put it. It is related audio and video however, so maybe it goes here.
My wife is something of a photographer. She has literally taken tens of thousands of pictures since we have married. Some of them have even been bought by commercial companies. On my windows system, we have a color calibrator. It's a little device you stick on your monitor with a suction cup and it scans the colors of the image on the screen. It compares this with the colors embedded in the image file ( jpeg, gif, png, whatever ) and compares them against a color reference library in the device. She has an expensive Camera, but it does a pretty good job of capturing the exact colors of the images. They are never very far off from what you see with your eyes.
But I have noticed, many of the images she sells to image companies, "enhance" them. Make them brighter, with most contrast.
A lot of magazines you buy in the store do this as well. I recently saw one of my wife's pictures in a magazine article. It was so doctor'ed up that it was barely recognizable except it had her name in the picture credits at the bottom of the article.
I was helping a friend set up a new Mac not long ago, and I noticed colors were more vivid and brighter on the Mac. So put the color calibrator on it, and it said the monitor was way off. As much as 8 percent in some areas. So even though the image looked better on the Mac, it wasn't really true to what you would see with your eyes.
The same goes for audio. I am in a band, so I have some reference audio equipment. I capture sound waves on the original recording and compare it to the way people hear it in a sound stage or auditorium, or in my case, a church. I notice people rarely listen to songs the way they were recorded, they pump up the bass, add a little treble here and there to get the sound just how they like it.
There's nothing really wrong with any of that, but it made me wonder. Is the real world not good enough for us? Do we have to enhance the images we see, and the sounds we hear? This isn't always bad, but can it get to a point where everything has to be enhanced for us to appreciate it? Can we get so used to having salt and pepper and tabasco sauce on all our food, until it doesn't taste good to us unless we over-do it?
My step son has these new VR goggles. The video is amazing in them. The games are pretty cool, I would say almost realistic.. but often it's the color that gives it away. It's too exaggerated. Maybe the game wouldn't look as good or be as fun to play without this exaggeration, and that's my point.
Is the real world too "plain" for us. Are the songs we hear too "bland" for us. Are we getting to the point where everything has to be digitally enhanced in order for us to appreciate it?
My wife is something of a photographer. She has literally taken tens of thousands of pictures since we have married. Some of them have even been bought by commercial companies. On my windows system, we have a color calibrator. It's a little device you stick on your monitor with a suction cup and it scans the colors of the image on the screen. It compares this with the colors embedded in the image file ( jpeg, gif, png, whatever ) and compares them against a color reference library in the device. She has an expensive Camera, but it does a pretty good job of capturing the exact colors of the images. They are never very far off from what you see with your eyes.
But I have noticed, many of the images she sells to image companies, "enhance" them. Make them brighter, with most contrast.
A lot of magazines you buy in the store do this as well. I recently saw one of my wife's pictures in a magazine article. It was so doctor'ed up that it was barely recognizable except it had her name in the picture credits at the bottom of the article.
I was helping a friend set up a new Mac not long ago, and I noticed colors were more vivid and brighter on the Mac. So put the color calibrator on it, and it said the monitor was way off. As much as 8 percent in some areas. So even though the image looked better on the Mac, it wasn't really true to what you would see with your eyes.
The same goes for audio. I am in a band, so I have some reference audio equipment. I capture sound waves on the original recording and compare it to the way people hear it in a sound stage or auditorium, or in my case, a church. I notice people rarely listen to songs the way they were recorded, they pump up the bass, add a little treble here and there to get the sound just how they like it.
There's nothing really wrong with any of that, but it made me wonder. Is the real world not good enough for us? Do we have to enhance the images we see, and the sounds we hear? This isn't always bad, but can it get to a point where everything has to be enhanced for us to appreciate it? Can we get so used to having salt and pepper and tabasco sauce on all our food, until it doesn't taste good to us unless we over-do it?
My step son has these new VR goggles. The video is amazing in them. The games are pretty cool, I would say almost realistic.. but often it's the color that gives it away. It's too exaggerated. Maybe the game wouldn't look as good or be as fun to play without this exaggeration, and that's my point.
Is the real world too "plain" for us. Are the songs we hear too "bland" for us. Are we getting to the point where everything has to be digitally enhanced in order for us to appreciate it?
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