Re: Dark Cinema
Re: Dark Cinema
- Subject: Re: Dark Cinema
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:11:24 +0100
1-The brightness (and contrast) step (s) are there to have consistency
with
multiple monitors in a room (or workstations) in a commercial environment.
If you launch MeasureTool/ProfileMaker 3.1 and Eye-One Match 1, you
see a UI difference. The first has more detailled brightness and
contrast settings and the second has less detailled ditto. The first
also has read-outs telling you what is actually measured. If you want
to set multiple monitors up, you want to know how each monitor
behaves, or you won't have a concept of a target.
2- That the Epson driver uses quickdraw theory and is not good enough,
and a
rip oriented setup is required (of which I will probably not do).
While the PostScript printing pipeline beats the QuickDraw printing
pipeline any day, why should that have anything to do with the
lightness range in the print or proof?
the Epson was 3rd-party profiled with
ProfileMaker 3.1.
He also thinks I should reprofile the Epson papers.
Well, was the printer profiled or the printer / paper / ink
configuration profiled? Some users think they are profiling the
printer, as if switching papers wouldn't matter.
What monitor transform is applied and what printer transform is
applied? Black point compensation or no black point compensation, and
applied to which leg of which transform?
You can have good profiles and bad profile chains.
No one knows, but he
thinks that turning up the ACD brightness can shorten its like
Roger Siminoff said in conversation that the ACD technology has a
half-life far beyond that of a CRT in which case the above assumption
is wrong. In the discussion, Roger was thinking of a CRT running to
default 9300 Kelvin and the short short half-life for the blue gamut
that came up surprised me. If on the other hand a CRT is run to 5000
Kelvin, the red gamut will go first. Better run a CRT to 5500 Kelvin
or at least that's what I do with ProfileMaker.
David and Fred whacked me so often for supporting the ColorSync 2.5
API and the Apple monitors that I'll stay clear of the ACD debate for
now, though -:).