Re: Fighting Colorsync Monitors
Re: Fighting Colorsync Monitors
- Subject: Re: Fighting Colorsync Monitors
- From: Richard Millott <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:54:08 +1100
At 21:48 13/12/2000 -0500, Glenn wrote:
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>I was using ColorVision's PhotoCal with the Spyder and after a call to
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>Shawn Clark, he suggested that the only way to build a satisfactory
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>profile with these monitors was to, first run the inbuilt auto calibration
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>at the Gamma and white point desired, then set the contrast to 100% and
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>brightness to 50% and run PhotoCal with the puck. As you might imagine, it
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>was very difficult to set Brightness to 50%, without any visual reference.
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>Contrast was'nt that hard. :-)
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Thanks Richard... interesting. I can understand running the monitor
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through Apple's calibration first, but I don't get the significance
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of setting the brightness to 50%.
I guess it is based on Shawns experience with these monitors. But he did add
a caveat that the black point would not be set correctly.
It is ironic that Apple can be so encouraging to the a group like this, by
giving us such a wonderful tool as ColorSync but on the other hand produce
monitors that are not able to be accurately manually calibrated and
profiled!!!
Regards
Richard