re: Monitor Profiling Gone Bad
re: Monitor Profiling Gone Bad
- Subject: re: Monitor Profiling Gone Bad
- From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:40:12 -0600
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:42:29 -0400 , John Romano <email@hidden>
wrote:
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HELLO
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IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE?
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is this too deep for some simple answer ? are we clueless ?
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i must admit we are brain dead at this point, we dont sleep at night, we
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have
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terrible nightmares of having to calibrate a monitor.
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i though monitor calibration was the easy part of colormanagement
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i must admit colorvision has been helpful,they only have a one person tech
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support
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who wasnt available when we placed a call, great support huh?
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3 spyders and not one is close to the spectrol, i dont understand.
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you know they monitor this list , but still no takers on this one.
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all the experts that recommend these products have nothing to say, i am
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shocked.
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i thought for sure we could buy a clue from vanna, guess not.
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hopefully im wrong and someone will offer their words of wisdom
O.k., o.k., so the Spyder doesn't compare to a $4,000 spectrophotometer
(SpectroLino). What do you expect? I personally have installed several
Spyders without a problem. The Spyders suction cups don't work that well
unless a little spit is applied. Yeah, you'll have to clean the screen after
but whatever. If one of the Spyder's suction cups pop off and there is even
a little space between the black shrowd and the screen light can leak in.
The Spyder has a milky plexiglass over the sensor which (IMHO) is more
susceptible to flare and reflections than 'Lino design or Xrite's DTP92. The
original Mc7 calibrators had gross problems because the plexiglass was
reflecting light back onto the screen and such. The improved Spyder does
have a rubber shrowd around the measurement area but if one of those suction
cups pops off you can get very strange results. I am not saying definitively
this is the problem but it could be something over looked.
Since Terry is now using Optical he can easily see how much calibration
is necessary to achieve his target gamma compared to his monitor's native
gamma, confirm how far off his 50% grays are and white point.
--
Dan B. Reid
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