Re: Funny Thing
Re: Funny Thing
- Subject: Re: Funny Thing
- From: SKID Photography <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:03:34 -0400
- Organization: SKID Photography
Jeff,
It is possible that you particular monitor is too old to properly calibrate. When the
monitors are over (I think) 3 years (@ 8 hours/day), they no longer get bright enough to
calibrate properly. And if I am following the thread correctly, you said that you monitor
came on line in 1997.
Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC
email@hidden wrote:
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"That is the telltale sign of a monitor whose native whitepoint is mismatched
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from its calibrated whitepoint. Tell me, if you are choking the blue gun back
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down with the Video LUTs, why do you feel that running it high in the front
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panel settings increases the final luminance? Is the front panel 6500 setting
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actually a bit low in the green and blue? One angle on this is to set the
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whitpoint at the matching preset, or the one above it the matching one isn't
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quite high enough, and this may be your case. Brightness, if the device is
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not a dim glow, is set via luminance, not white point, which is merely a
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balance of the RG&B channels."
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Huh?
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Can someone please translate the above for a beginner who is using an Apple
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720, 17 inch monitor on a Beige G3 Desktop.
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I would really appreciate it, because I have read over a hundred pages on
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ColorSync and calibrating, plus these eMails, and I have never been able to
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properly calibrate my monitor, especially with the hardware temp set under
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9300K.
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Thank you a lot.
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Jeff.
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