Re: Monitor Profile 5000K or 6500K?
Re: Monitor Profile 5000K or 6500K?
- Subject: Re: Monitor Profile 5000K or 6500K?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:30:52 EDT
In a message dated 9/1/01 7:14:39 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I know there is a lot of talk about it's best to calibrate a monitor to
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6500K 2.2 gamma, But since all input and output profiles are all 5000K
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based
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wouldn't it be better to calibrate at 5000K? In PhotoShop I only work in
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my
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Dcam Profile Space which is a 5000K based Profile.
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I can see if I was working in Adobe RGB I would be better to be 6500K but
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on
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the other hand if I do a soft Preview in PS using a 5000K based Profile
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then
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what. I am all confused.
When you run them side by side, you see that its hardly worth worrying
about... if you can hit 5000k, and like working in a cave, its fine. If you
find 6500k easier to target, and want a bit more background light, thats fine
too...
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P.S.. I really enjoy this list a lot of good info, but all this talk about
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Drum scanner Versus CCD, shouldn't this be discussed else where?
Probably... but its useful to some list members, and easy enough to screen
out by subject titles.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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