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I’ve got to take small issue with the term “superblack” to describe values which are less than a certain value (Ron gives the < .1 example). The "super-" prefix usually means "higher than" or in typography, "above". So when I think of a spectrum where 0 is black and 1.0 is white, "superblack" seems to suggest a value greater than Ron's arbitrary value of .1 when in fact it is the opposite. For clarity I suggest we adopt the term "sub-black"; this also allows for logical continuity with other terms, such as "sub-pixel" sampling. Or in acoustics, “sub bass” refers to frequencies below an arbitrary threshold — say, 50 Hz — and are sent to the subwoofer. Devil’s in the details, I know 🙂 Thoughts anyone?
I may be wrong, but I think the term superblack comes from video when the black level goes below .3V into the sync area of the image.
Yeah, I didn’t coin the term – only passing it along. Technically (semantically) I agree with you but there’s a lot of video engineers that you’ll have to re-educate. 🙂
Dude. Its super black because it’s super duper black, dude.
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