Monitor gamma
Monitor gamma
- Subject: Monitor gamma
- From: Mark Winchester <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:50:16 -0600
- Organization: Sound Creations
I've been using Optical/DTP-92 on my Mitsubishi monitors for awhile now. In
times past I have used PreCal to adjust my RGB guns, then set the Targets
and Curves to Gamma 2.2 and Color Temperature to 6500. When I calibrate like
this, the final white point yields a brightness of 106 candelas. I've
noticed a number of posts to the list suggesting that 80-90 is a "better"
range, so today I set the target to print (giving me a target of 85
candelas), then changed the Color Temperature back to 6500 and saved the new
target setting as 85 Candelas. Once calibrated the brightness was just over
85 candelas. I noticed that it took big changes (relative to the monthly
adjustments for monitor aging) to contrast and to a degree the brightness
settings to accomplish this. Am I correct in assuming that the monitor is
now displaying a lower gamma than it was before? Since I work on projects
targeted for a very wide range of final output (print, web, broadcast), it's
good for me to be aware of what's happening on my systems, so I can
anticipate how images will look to PC users (web) and TV viewers (TVs are
typically much brighter than computer monitors). The system has served me
well in my print work.
Mark