RE: LaCie brightness problem (Milton, Jack)
RE: LaCie brightness problem (Milton, Jack)
- Subject: RE: LaCie brightness problem (Milton, Jack)
- From: Jan-Peter Homann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:06:23 +0100
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We are having the same brightnes problems with LaCie electron22blue
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monitors. We are calibrating them with an X-Rite DTP 92 and X-Rite's
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Colorshop. Even after calibration they are significantly brighter than our
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previous Sony monitors and our photos are printing too dark. The only thing
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that's changed is the monitors. Help!
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>>I just got a LaCie electron19II monitor and a Blue Eye calibrator.
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But
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> when i do the hardware calibration with LaCie blue Eye 2.2.6 software,
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> everything on the monitor looks to bright. Nothing looks really black.
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> Even the reference image I have (Imacon Professor) looks to bright and
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> flat.
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> The RGB-files I already have delivered to different papers and magazines
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> comes back with the complaint that they are to dark.
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> If I after the calibration manually turn down the brighness by 25% it
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> looks rather okay, but whats the use with the hardware calibrator
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> then....
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> Anyone have a clue about what to do?
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> Setup: 6500 Kelvin, gamma 1.8, Poowerbook G3, Photoshop 5.5, OS 9.0.4<<
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There are several solutions:
Simple one
Bring the monitors in your company on the visual same Level for Brightness and
use you existing hardware calibrator. (This works with the third party
calibrators, I don4t know about the LaCie hardware Calibrator. If your Black is
to greyish even with lowered brightness and contrast, you can try to change the
gain level for each gun.
Better one
Buy a software for your hardware calibrator wich allows you to measure the white
brightness level and adjust all your monitors to the same brightness level.
prove It or Optical/Precal will do this Job. I don4t know how PreCal handels the
Black-Level. In Prove it, there is no information about it, but the black-level
kann influence what we see on the monitor even, if we have a proper calibration.
If I have a Job with prove it, I use the function for visual finetuning by
comparing the monitor to a reference-print under controlles lightning.
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Jan-Peter Homann
mailto:email@hidden
http://www.colormanagement.de