RE: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
RE: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- Subject: RE: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:33:08 -0500
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the Mitsufishies we had looked awful and yellow at D50, but we got a
couple
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of Barco Calibrators last month and those look fine at D50 next to a D50
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lightbox. the Mitsies never really did get close to the lightbox even at
D65
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but it wasn't important that they do that at the time. it was... close
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enough.
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maybe cheaper monitors just can't reproduce D50 and D65 is really closer
to
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D50 on those? <shrug> well, it works anyway.
We get pretty tasty D50 matches on our Mitsubishi Diamond Pro displays
($800 each!). I don't think it is a "cheap display" issue. I'd certainly
say that the default out-of-the-box D50 (and D65 for that matter) color
settings are inaccurate. After calibrating with a quality instrument
(Spectrocam, iOne, whatever) and a decent software package we get a decent
match to our D50 lightboxes...and we spent a fraction of what one would
spend on the Barco display.
Regards,
Eric Bullock
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