Re: Individual Gun Adjustment-How Important Is It?
Re: Individual Gun Adjustment-How Important Is It?
- Subject: Re: Individual Gun Adjustment-How Important Is It?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:04:52 EDT
In a message dated 6/9/01 9:24:48 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I am new to color matching, and I recently bought a 19 inch LaCie Electron
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Blue 2 monitor. That monitor does not allow for adjusting the individual
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guns. Instead, you can simply select a general setting such as 6500K. How
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important is it to be able to adjust the individual guns if you're using
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only one monitor, a Mac, and Photoshop 6.0.1?
The gun adjustments allow you to hardware correct to the maximum posible
degree before building the profile, so the profile doesn't have to work as
hard. This can result in smoother gradiants, and even better color range. But
it only affects the monitor view, and only mildly.
Did I make a big mistake
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in
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getting this monitor, or can it still be successfully calibrated with a
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device such as the Monitor Spyder?
Many owners of this monitor calibrate it with a Spyder, and get very
satisfactory result, but they also typically feel like they have been a bit
shortchanged, knowing the tube has those gun controls, and the LaCie case
doesn't allow access to them...
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Is there a better device or method for me ( a single user) to use for
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calibrating?
Well, there is a worse device, for a higher price, with LaCie's own access to
the gun controls... if you want to go the BlueEye route. Any other device
will be in the same position as the Spyder, unable to precalibrate the RGB
guns. By the way: you can at least check the balance of your guns with the
Spyder, even if you can't change them... so you can see what kind of balance
the preset temperature is giving you.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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