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: Scott Griswold <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:21:11 -0500
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From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
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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
I find that D65 is on the other extreme of D50. Too Blue. I calibrate my
barco to D53 and find it to work quite well. My Ref Cal even had a factory
default of D53. That is what lead me to try it. I generally calibrate all
Mitsubishi (or similar) monitors to D55 and get excellent results.
As to the why, I am not qualified to give the scientific reasons, but I
would guess that it has to do with the different way the eye percieves color
coming from reflected media vs. an emissive monitor. Making a small
adjustment to the white point simply compensates for the discrepency.
Scott Griswold