Stephen wrote:
mhafner wrote:
What do you mean, gamma too high and contrast too low? Raising gamma enhances contrast (and reduces shadow detail).
Contrast (specifically black base contrast) is too low meaning whites are never white, but grey. And gamma is too high meaning skin tones are too light/pale.
How would raising gamma reduce shadow detail exactly? Should it not have the opposite effect?
If whites are too low the white point/contrast is set incorrectly. Gamma need not be involved, but it may. If gamma goes up gray shades rise more slowly from the black level, if it goes down more quickly. So high gamma plus not so good black level of display = crushed blacks and loss of shadow detail. The blacker the black of the display the higher the gamma you can use without losing shadow detail (so CRT has highest display gamma with ~2.6).
DEI discs as I remember are on the cool side with color temperature. I compared Fiza DEI with the other one back then (not Moserbaer) and the colors were far better. How warm or cold the transfer should be is in the end a matter of taste. Ideally it should look like a master print. It's possible the prints looked warmer than the DEI disc but I don't remember for sure. Bollywood film prints often have a color grading problem anyway due to wider lab tolerances and not enough post production time to do a careful job (rushed). So even if it looks like the print it may not be what the film makers actually intended.
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