Re: iOne Monitor issues
Re: iOne Monitor issues
- Subject: Re: iOne Monitor issues
- From: email@hidden (Bruce Fraser)
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:06:55 -0800
At 9:22 AM -0500 2/8/02, email@hidden wrote:
Just got the iOne Monitor package to evaluate as a replacement for an aging
X-Rite DTP92 and ColorBlind's ProveIt software. When going through the
steps in the Gretag software, I noticed that the sliders for brightness and
RGB seem to jump around a lot. I mean...a lot. I had to make a guess as to
where to set the RGB guns and brightness based on where the sliders hovered
most of the time. Is this normal behavior or have I maybe got a bunk
instrument? The profiles created with the iOne don't seem to be as accurate
as those made with the X-Rite/ProveIt combo...at least as far as matching
or SWOP proofs. They seem dark, contrasty, and red. This is interesting as
I've heard such good things regarding the iOne package.
The slider jumpiness is greatly improved in Eye-One Match 1.1, which
is available for download from i1color.com. Refresh rate also plays a
role. I'm not seeing the behavior at all at 75Hz. (I'm also not
getting dark contrasty red profiles.)
It's very important that after you've made the contrast quality
measurement and before you start the brightness quality measurement,
you zero the brightness on the monitor, because Eye-One Match pegs
the brightness relative to the zeroed black...
As a related question, is there any reason for the far fewer number of
patches the iOne reads when creating a monitor profile? The ProveIt
software takes 93 different readings (I didn't bother to count the number
that the Gretag iOne software uses). I've noticed a similar discrepancy
with Profile City's ICC Display (fewer patches). Is reading 93 patches
overkill? The one thing I like about both the iOne and the ICC Display
software is the method used to set brightnes levels (other software
probably does this as well). Those ridiculous squares in ProveIt
are...well, ridiculous! I'm looking forward to evaluating Colorvision's
products.
Eye-One Match does 53 samples, which is more than many. I've been
getting very good monitor profiles from it, even under OS X where
it's currently the only game in town. However, the boxed cursor
problem with NVidia cards which got fixed in OS 9.2.2 is still
present in OS 10.1.2...
B
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