raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 · 1706 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 02 August 2009 at 1:09 PM
Too dark? You are not a photographer, I assume.
If the luminance value of two identical objects are compared in direct sunlight versus indoors in daylight, without artificial light and with typical window space, the ratio is 1000 to 1.
That means that if you correctly expose the outdoor tank at maximum without blown highlights resulting in an RGB value in sRGB space of 255 (the maximum without loss of info) then the same point inside the tunnel would be represented by sRGB 11. Can you see 11 on your monitor? Unless you've calibrated it perfectly, you cannot. I cannot see it on my laptop. But on my $500 Samsung, I can, and it looks like photographs do.
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