New Monitor Desired DCI-P3???

[Abitconfused]

I am looking for a 30-32-inch monitor. I see some nice suggestions but I keep running into the DCI-P3 color space which seems to be a cinema color model. I believe Adobe RGB is still the best standard for photography. How far out of gamut would Adobe RGB colors be in the DCI-P3 color space? Thank you.

[Manfred M]

Both DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB are considered to be wide-gamut colour spaces (when compared to sRGB). Adobe RGB is a little wider, but that is neither her nor there to answer your question. The DCI-P3 colour space was developed for digital cinema projectors, so if you are working in professional cinema, it is the go to colour space for making feature films.
If you look at the chromacity diagram, you can see the two colour spaces overlaid on the "horseshoe" shape that represents human colour vision.

The DCI-P3 is capable of reproducing some reds and yellows (and some greens) that are out of gamut for most processes used by photographers. Adobe RGB was initially developed in order to show colours that can be reproduced by the printing industry (which includes ink jet photo printing), so for photographers who do print, Adobe RGB compliant screens offer a small advantage over P3 as the bright reds and yellows are out of gamut for devices we tend to use in photography.

If you are primarily displaying digital images, these need to be converted to sRGB before being uploaded to the internet. The Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 colour spaces completely contain the sRGB colour space.

The bottom line is that if you are a colour print maker, then the Adobe RGB colour space is better suited to your workflow.

In terms of video content, if you are working in that medium, the standard we see for digital video is Rec 709 which for all intents and purposes is almost an exact match for sRGB. Any streaming content or even DVD / BluRay content that we see for home uses Rec 709 colour space.

Both DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB compliant screens are better to work with than sRGB compliant ones for photographers. Adobe RGB is slightly better than DCI-P3 from that standpoint, especially if you are doing high end printmaking.

[dje]

Further to Manfred's explanation, there are two variants to the P3 color space. DCI--P3 is the original developed for cinema projectors and more recently Apple introduced Display P3 which is now used on many of their products. The primaries are the same but Display P3 specifies a D65 White Point and DCI-P3 has a WP around 6300 deg K. Display P3 seems to be gaining popularity in mainstream monitors. Either Adobe RGB or Display P3 would be good for many photographers and videographers I'd say, but note Manfred's comment about printing.

Dave

[Manfred M]

There is a good and easy to read write-up on Display P3 vs DCI-P3 versus sRGB vs Adobe RGB that covers many of the points you and I have covered Dave, that BenQ has put out. The other difference is that DCI-P3 uses a gamma curve of 2.6 versus the Display P3 using a gamma curve of 2.2 (same as sRGB).

If everyone uses devices that are capable of displaying the Display P3 colour space, that is all fine and good, but my main objection to the article is that the majority of the low end computer screens that are being sold are not even sRGB compliant, so assuming that everyone will move to Display P3 is somewhat premature. Once Apple and the various Android equipment makers come up with a way of calibrating and profiling their displays (something that has not happened) and all of the software that runs on them is colour managed, there may be a point to it. I'm not going to hold my breath....

https://www.benq.com/en-us/knowledge...tive-work.html

[Abitconfused]

Got it! Thank you all.