Re: LaCie calibration system
Re: LaCie calibration system
- Subject: Re: LaCie calibration system
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:40:17 -0800
At 10:09 AM -0500 11/14/00, email@hidden wrote:
I can confirm that the package that LaCie is selling for about $600 US is in
fact the low cost, low quality Chroma4 colorimeter.
Having just spent some time today on one of these LaCie monitors I
would like to offer a few observations of my own:
- The colorimeter has "Minolta" written just inside the cup. It does
not appear to be the same colorimeter as the Sequel.
- The colorimeter, in conjunction with the monitor's serial
connection to the Mac make a compelling calibration system. I have
not seen a system that worked quite this well for a while. It made a
very nice profile and was easy to use - a few complaints though..
+ you can only select white points in major steps - D50, D65, etc -
no 5500 or 6000 or whatever available.
+ the profiling software does not select the profile in the ColorSync
control panel so it is not automatically in use.
+ there is no "vcgt" calibration tag put into the monitor profile. I
see this as a potentially serious drawback. I understand that the
calibration can be performed in the monitor guns but if you select
any profile in the monitors control panel, its calibration curves
will be loaded and there is no way to get back to "uncalibrated"
without rebooting - stupid!
Annoying things aside - I still liked it.
Am I talking about the same monitor/puck system as you folks?
At 4:00 PM -0700 11/14/00, Chris Murphy wrote:
I debate on how much of a problem it's dark blue color and hood are in
terms of affecting our color perception. I think that it looks a lot
nicer than icky gray, but I would prefer a non-glossy (or matte) *black*
color compared to the blue.
Anyone have an opinions on this dark blue color?
I thought this might be a problem too but with the hood it seems invisible.
Regards,
Steve Upton
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for those who have bothered to read this far...
- I talked with a rep (mitsu) at a trade show quite a while back and
they said that they (Mitsu) had worked with Minolta to develop the
colorimeter / calibration system and had a legal agreement with
Minolta to keep it exclusive. Then the LaCie monitor showed up using
the same system. Apparently Mitsu now gets a piece of each LaCie sold
with the colorimeter... interesting no? Don't go saying I don't help
spread rumors <g>