Re: Profiling Cinema
Re: Profiling Cinema
- Subject: Re: Profiling Cinema
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:36:53 -0500
on 11/8/01 2:04 PM, Anthony Sanna wrote:
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I was giving advice to friend who is about to profile his Cinema Display
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for the first time with the EyeOne package, when I began to question what
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I was telling him.
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D65 and 2.2 gamma are the settings I use on my CRT's, but then it dawned
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on me that both these values were somewhat arrived at because of the
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inherent nature of the CRT itself. Are these recommendations still the
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best when profiling a LCD, are they even valid on a flat panel, or are
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there better settings that should be used?
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Come to think about it, my OptiCal/CRT point of reference could be
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totally n/a to the new displays. I mean, there are no gamma settings or
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PreCal adjustments - no guns, right? - and the only controls for my Apple
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15" LCD are contained in its Monitor CP window = White Point temp, White
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and Black level sliders, some Position, Tracking and Sharpness controls,
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and an Optimize button. So with these new LCD profilers, would you
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simply set the color temp (is 6500 still the recommend?), hitch up the
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bra, slap in the meter, and hit "Profile"? I assume, at one point in the
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process, that you play with White & Black level sliders (if the Cinema's
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Monitor CP looks like the one I've got).
You've go it.
Here's what I've done with LCDs:
Run thru an initial cal just to find what the "native" white point is and
later use this as your target color temp. Both Optical and Gretag's
ProfileMaker Monitor profiler can do this (the Eye-One Monitor package only
gives you presets, not custom color temp - you need their "professional"
monitor software to allow custom settings). If I was using Optical, I'd also
want to find out what the native ("uncorrected") gamma was and set this as
my custom gamma target. The idea here is to get the most of the LCD and not
choke it back or "correct" it in any way and then profile that condition.
Works for me.
Terry
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Terence L. Wyse
Color Management Specialist
All Systems Integration, Inc.
http://www.allsystems.com
email@hidden
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