Hi,
I just installed Win7 x64 on my Macbook Pro 17" LED screen (Macbook v4.1) and I notice that the initial screen settings in Windows 7 are set so that my screen looks extremely bright! I don't know whether it's a gamma setting or brightness/contrast or something else, but the desktop and of course photos look ridiculously bright now! It's like the initial gamma setting is something like 1.4 or even less!!! I know, it's sounds crazy... but I'm seeing so much (ugly) information in (extreme) dark areas of my photos, which is impossible to see at gamma 2.2 or even 1.8!
Now, I know that Win7 has an easy to use Gamma/Screen adjust wizard and if you walk through it, the screen settings can be easily set to a more normal setting. Although this is good, I know that many users, especially Windows users, are very lazy about configuring in general and especially calibrating their screen, so I'm worried that most new W7 user will not do this and watch online photos on a screen which is set way(!!) to bright.
Windows 7 shows the photos so extremely bright!! Or maybe I'm totally wrong and it's all about color rendering in IE8 under W7 x64 ? At this moment, I'm clueless....
Can anyone confirm having the same experience with Win7 on a Macbook?
Thanks,
Kris
I just installed Win7 x64 on my Macbook Pro 17" LED screen (Macbook v4.1) and I notice that the initial screen settings in Windows 7 are set so that my screen looks extremely bright! I don't know whether it's a gamma setting or brightness/contrast or something else, but the desktop and of course photos look ridiculously bright now! It's like the initial gamma setting is something like 1.4 or even less!!! I know, it's sounds crazy... but I'm seeing so much (ugly) information in (extreme) dark areas of my photos, which is impossible to see at gamma 2.2 or even 1.8!
Now, I know that Win7 has an easy to use Gamma/Screen adjust wizard and if you walk through it, the screen settings can be easily set to a more normal setting. Although this is good, I know that many users, especially Windows users, are very lazy about configuring in general and especially calibrating their screen, so I'm worried that most new W7 user will not do this and watch online photos on a screen which is set way(!!) to bright.
Windows 7 shows the photos so extremely bright!! Or maybe I'm totally wrong and it's all about color rendering in IE8 under W7 x64 ? At this moment, I'm clueless....
Can anyone confirm having the same experience with Win7 on a Macbook?
Thanks,
Kris