Re: Dark Cinema
Re: Dark Cinema
- Subject: Re: Dark Cinema
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:08:02 -0500
on 11/15/01 7:31 PM, Anthony Sanna wrote:
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The package that my friend has is the monitor profiling software with the
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spectro for monitor and print profiling. He seems to have gotten an
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accurate profile for his Cinema - his Epson 7500 prints match (3rd party
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profiled) - but his screen is now very dark - and very disappointing to
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work on.
If he's using the Eye-One Monitor or Eye-One Match package, he should
probably choose "Warm White" (5000K) and "Mac Gamma" for starters. If it's
anything like my G3 PowerBook LCD (probably not!), it'll measure about
4700-5000K for white point. If he opted for the Gretag Profilemaker Monitor
package, he'd have a bunch more control over white point, gamma, luminance,
etc. Oh, and tell him to ignore the stupid arrow indicators for the
brightness and contrast in the Eye-One software and just crank 'em up. The
profile will still be good.
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I tried to download Eye-One information from the G/M site, but there is
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little information there. This all sounds to me like he may be missing a
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step, or that the Eye-One package is not the right tool that he needs. I
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mean, I can set my Sony at 80cd/m2 or 100cd/m2 and OptiCal doesn't care.
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The profiles render images in Photoshop correctly no matter.
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What's the answer? Should he be chuck the Eye-One for a more effective
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profiler?
The Eye-One is fine but he may find the Gretag monitor profiling not to his
liking. I've always found it seems to plug shadow detail no matter what
instrument I use (Spectrolino and Eye-One). I'm playing around with
ICCDisplay by Profile City and the Eye-One and am getting better results
with it. FWIW, I get superior results with OptiCAL and the 'Lino, I just
wish they'd support the Eye-One and I'd have the perfect combo in my book.
Later,
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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