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Monitor Looks Hazy: Help?

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dondo   09-28-2006 at 08:33:26 AM

I cannot figure out what is going on. I have tried adjusted contrast and brightness and gamma and ATI's color adjuster and Adobe's gamma adjuster but my monitor does not have the brightness range that my other one does. I am using two monitors side by side and there is a noticeable (sp?) difference between the two.

My Viewsonic is much brighter and the blacks are very black. My other monitor, a Samsung 997DF, does not look close to it. The whites look like a 5% grey and the blacks look like a 75% grey. It looks like I am looking through fog on this thing.

Does anyone know how to fix this or can point me in another direction?

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KevinAr18   10-03-2006 at 09:50:09 PM
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See what this does:
1. Make sure that you have all gamma adjustments turned off (check the video card driver's control panel).

...then follow the information given on this site:
http://www.poynton.com/notes/brightness_and_contrast/

According the site, brightness and contrast are actually reversed for some reason. So, based on that, continue with the following steps:

2. Turn down brightness and contrast.
3. Put a black image (and perhaps a very dark grey) on screen.
4. Raise the brightness control (looks like a sun) until the true black just begins to turn a dark grey.
5. Raise the contrast control (looks like a circle with two halves) to whatever brightness you want the monitor to be.


See if that helps.

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