Re: re electronblue 19" and colorvision spyder
Re: re electronblue 19" and colorvision spyder
- Subject: Re: re electronblue 19" and colorvision spyder
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:04:45 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/01 4:18:47 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I read these last posts in digest 272 and was wondering about my monitor.
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I
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did the calibration with the spyder and optical (the 200$ version) and
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it
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looks good and performs well, but I have no idea if the rgb gun outputs
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are
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even or not. There is no control save for white balance on this 19" eblue.
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Can I live in blissful ignorance, confident that optical is taking care
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of
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me, or is there some way I can check this. I've read something about precal
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in the optical software, but I believe it is automatic on the cheaper
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version I have.
You can check your gun balance, even if you can't adjust it; but you may be
frustrated by what you find. Launch PreCal, let it read the RG&B maximum
values, and graph them, and you will see how well the guns are balanced. With
a "self calibrating" Apple monitor, for instance, the "stair-step" pattern of
red lower, green in between, and blue gun highest, is about half as
imbalanced as on most raw monitors. I even find LaCies that are supposed to
have been autobalanced via internal controls and the BlueEye to show a
noticable imbalance. The profile can compensate for such imbalances, but if
it doesn't have to work as hard, the result is likely to be a bit smoother.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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