Re: Profiling Cinema
Re: Profiling Cinema
- Subject: Re: Profiling Cinema
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:10:53 EST
In a message dated 11/8/01 2:50:44 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Here's what I've done with LCDs:
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Run thru an initial cal just to find what the "native" white point is and
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later use this as your target color temp. Both Optical and Gretag's
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ProfileMaker Monitor profiler can do this (the Eye-One Monitor package
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only
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gives you presets, not custom color temp - you need their "professional"
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monitor software to allow custom settings). If I was using Optical, I'd
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also
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want to find out what the native ("uncorrected") gamma was and set this
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as
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my custom gamma target. The idea here is to get the most of the LCD and
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not
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choke it back or "correct" it in any way and then profile that condition.
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Works for me.
This is close, but for OptiCAL its best to use PreCAL to balance the guns on
those LCDs offering this ability, and set the white point and luminance as
part of that process, then simply use the native white point setting in
OptiCAL. For the Apple displays no gun adjustments are available, and the m
onitors are quite accuately set ot 6500, so again you can just use native as
the white point, and live with the 6500 white point. Forcing the white point
instead will imbalance your grays. If you don't want a 6500 white point,
don't buy an Apple display.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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