Re: calibrating monitors to what?
Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- Subject: Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- From: Lee Manevitch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:33:02 -0400
on 10/26/01 2:24 PM, R. Lutz at email@hidden wrote:
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Reply and Question 2: (from a professional lab) In reading through these
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posts, everyone says they want a calibrated monitor. My question back to
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them is what is the monitor calibrated to? Is the monitor calibrated to
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look good in your viewing environment? Is it calibrated to look good to
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what specific output device? Is it calibrated to an industry standard
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that has yet to be embraced by everyone?
The issue at hand isn't so much the calibration of the monitor - setting it
up to behave like a certain arbitrary standard, but rather the
characterization of that monitor - describing the exact behavior of that
monitor. "Profiling" a monitor by using a program like OptiCal or similar
sets the monitor's behavior to be close to a reference standard, then
describes how the monitor behaves relative to that standard.
The net result of calibration and characterization of a monitor, or an input
or output device, is that by defining the standard and then describing how
the device varies from that standard, it *doesn't matter* what the standard
is. If you're working in an environment where everything is calibrated and
characterized, then, you should be able to anticipate how an image should
look at any device you have. Using different standards (BruceRGB / EktaSpace
/ sRGB) is a matter of personal taste and image quality, not color fidelity.
--
Lee Manevitch
Bradenton, FL
email@hidden