Monitor temperature
Monitor temperature
- Subject: Monitor temperature
- From: Don Dennis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:11:30 -0700
- Organization: Don Dennis Graphic Design
Hi, list, are you ready for a dumb question?
My new NEC/Mitsubishi 2060U has some controls that I've been unable to
comprehend. No surprise there-- I still can't believe planes fly and
steel ships don't sink.
I'm given the option of setting the color (1, 2, 3 or sRGB) and then set
the color temp (from 9300 all the way down past 5000). When setting the
color, I can adjust the R, G and B %'s, or pick sRGB, which is a factory
pre-set. I can then pick one of what NEC calls "Fine Picture Mode" with
choices "Normal", "Text" or "Graphic". If I pick "Graphic", everything
set in "Color" and "Color Temp" is overridden, and the monitor reverts
to 9300.
If I then proceed to Adobe Gamma, I'm given the opportunity to set the
temperature to 5000, 6500, 7500 or 9300 (or anywhere in between).
My mind warp is: Is there a default (or native?) temperature a monitor
"performs best" at? And it seems redundant to have to set temperature in
the monitor to 6500 (for example), if I might be better off setting it
to 6500 in Adobe Gamma. Do these actions work the same, or is adjusting
the temp with the monitor's controls a "hardware" adjustment, while
Adobe Gamma isn't? Does "Same as Hardware" in Adobe Gamma require that
I've first set the 6500 in the monitor, or to the previous panel in
Adobe Gamma?
You can probably tell from the foggy mash of questions that I need some
sleep, but maybe by the time I awaken, some kind soul will have
de-mystified this for me, freeing up time to study displacement
principles of a floating body.
-Don