P3D Re: Monitors

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998
>From: "Greg Wageman" writes:
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>From: Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>
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>>What I found is that MOST monitors, flat or not by terminology, were NOT
>>flat as stereoscopically measured. Meaning that identical pixel patterns
>>tend to be closer together in the center of the monitor than they are at the
>>outside.
>>
>>Common distortions exist in both, or they can appear
>>equally flat in stereo.
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>
>I'm glad you realize that your CRT monitor is distorting your stereo work.  I
>just found it somewhat ironic that you were criticizing the Red Button's image
>for "appearing to be painted on the inside of a bowl", when this is quite
>literally true for a CRT-rendered  image!
>

****  Minor correction here. MY monitor distorts very little and is mostly
flat with a very slight ripple in one area. My first and smaller monitor is
almost absolutely flat. The point being that you don't have to stay with a
monitor that creates distortion. You can find a better monitor since they do
exist in the marketplace. I won't buy a monitor with significant distortion.
The red button viewer on the other hand distorts due to it's fundamental
lens situation. Not something you can just change by finding a better red
button viewer...

I didn't say I don't like red button viewers, I pointed out their
characteristic distortion, which is far more distortion than I'm used to
seeing in most of the images I work with. When it comes to viewers, I'm most
happy with the foldable viewer from RBT which I bought while in Bellevue at NSA.

Most images I work with are either prints or computer images.

Larry Berlin

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