You can set your refresh rate also in the Control Panel Display icon. It
should be at least 75. Sometimes at high resolutions and greater than 75,
you are pushing the bandwidth of your video card/monitor and things will
start to fuzz up. So you have to be aware of the tradeoffs between high
refresh rate and the capabilities of your hardware. The advertised maximums
invariably push the system into less than optimal sharpness. Remember,
screen resolution and sharpness are not at all the same thing, even though
literally speaking, the word resolution seems to imply that they are. This
is what I think Austin Franklin's beef is in using the word resolution to
name the pixel dimensions of the display.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of shAf
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
>
>
>
> Robert writes ...
>
> > ... Why would anyone use
> > anything but the highest resolution available for scanning
> > and viewing images created with high resolution
> > devices such as filmscanners.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I use 1024x768 for word-processing and e-mail on my 17"
> > monitor, but for images I always use 1600x1200 whether
> > on my 17" or 19" monitor.
>
> The higher resolutions are generally refreshed at slower rates, and
> sometimes the "flicker" is uncomfortable ... not always true, but
> depends on the display card. Monitor manufacturers usually list
> suggested resolutions as well, and it doesn't make much sense to go
> beyond the dot pitch.
>
> shAf :o)
>
