Re: Monitor calibration and print viewing
Re: Monitor calibration and print viewing
- Subject: Re: Monitor calibration and print viewing
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:51:32 EST
In a message dated 11/6/00 10:48:14 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I calibrated my monitor to 5000k gamma 1.8. Being a photographer I own
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a
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Minolta 3f colormeter (a photographers tool, not a color management tool)
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so
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I filled the screen with white and read it with my color meter and it reads
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3950K. This is disturbing, but perhaps beside my point. My question is
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about
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viewing conditions for the print. I'm not able to spend $1200-$1500 yet
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on a
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dimmable viewing booth, but I do have some OTT-Lights and replacement tubes
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for a Just light box. Both have very high CRI rendering. Should I try to
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set
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these up in such a way that the light falling onto, or reflected off of,
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my
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paper is of the same intensity and color teperature as that which emits
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from
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my monitor. Or, if these light sources are closer in color to 6500K (as
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indeed they are) should I calibrate my monitor to 6500K. Is it fair to
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guess
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that if I were in a closed loop system I could go either way, but if I
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need
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to share my files I should keep my monitor at 5000K and adjust my lights?
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Yes, your color meter readings are beside the point, as such a meter is not
designed to read monitor emissions. Actually, even with true 5000k lighting
booths a 6500k monitor whitepoint is closer to a match, and with Ott-Lites
6500k on screen is excellent. Too much can be made of white point matching,
as the eye adapts for variances here quite well, but the choices are to move
your light up and down (the gooseneck Ott-Lite is good for this) until the
paper white matches the monitor, or to create a fixed lighting situation (the
flip top Ott-Lite is good for this) and then adjust your monitor's luminance
level to match. This is probably more exacting than most users need to be,
and is more sensitive than most situations require, as different papers, and
different amounts of ambient light will change the exact match here.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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