<story><title>5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color</title><url>https://www.cinema5d.com/5k-imac-10-bit-color/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandamm</author><text>In some ways, this is Apple pushing things forward... but in other ways, it&amp;#x27;s just them catching up.  Until this update, there was no way to get 10-bit displays working with Apple products &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;, even third-party monitors that were 10-bit capable.  The OS simply wouldn&amp;#x27;t support 10-bit display.  I know you could get it in Windows, and almost certainly in Linux with the correct voodoo.&lt;p&gt;My post guys wanted to stay on the Mac platform, so we dealt with 8-bit displays (color wasn&amp;#x27;t a huge part of our workflow -- but 10 bit would&amp;#x27;ve been nice).  But it was one of those head-smacking moments for a platform that was supposedly media-friendly.&lt;p&gt;Note, there&amp;#x27;s some confusion in the comments so far -- 10 bit is a professional display, and is extremely uncommon.  Pro cameras and software can usually handle higher bit depths -- 16 for DSLRs, 10-12+ for pro video cameras -- but you&amp;#x27;re probably not seeing it unless you&amp;#x27;ve carefully set up your computer.  Those bits are still useful: they&amp;#x27;re the raw material for generating your 8-bit final image, so you don&amp;#x27;t get banding when adjusting color or exposure.  And they&amp;#x27;re essential for containing a wider range of possible values, letting pro cameras represent a wider dynamic range than is possible in 8 bit systems.&lt;p&gt;And 8 bits is more typical -- it&amp;#x27;s literally baked into many file formats, like JPEG. Some crappy screens on consumer electronics can&amp;#x27;t even represent the full 8 bits per channel; 6 bits + dithering is sadly really common, even in screens that advertise themselves as 8&amp;#x2F;24-bit.  Also, color depth can be reported both in bits-per-channel and total bit depth; a 10 bit-per-channel display is 30 bits of color information per RGB pixel, 10 each for red, green, and blue.&lt;p&gt;(Some of the confusion is probably intentional; I had a hardware partner brag about their &amp;#x27;15 bit display,&amp;#x27; which sounded very weird to me... until I realized it was really 5 bits &lt;i&gt;per channel&lt;/i&gt;, which is roughly bad-ATM-screen quality.)</text></comment>
<story><title>5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color</title><url>https://www.cinema5d.com/5k-imac-10-bit-color/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DAddYE</author><text>From a comment in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Hey guys, it appears it’s not just for the 5K iMac, 
  I have tested this on 2013 Mac Pro with an Eizo CS230
  monitor and can confirm that you can get 10bit output.
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