Re: monitors at 5000K 6500K??
Re: monitors at 5000K 6500K??
- Subject: Re: monitors at 5000K 6500K??
- From: "Udo J. Machiels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:21:12 +0000
Yep,
I fully agree with this!
Regards,
Udo
UK
on 8/1/03 8:02 pm, Jeffrey Stevensen at email@hidden wrote:
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Careful, personal experience, applied to the different monitors at hand, is
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the best solution. Every situation and person is unique. Thanks for the
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post.
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sincerely,
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Jeff
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> From: "Udo J. Machiels" <email@hidden>
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> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:14:59 +0000
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> To: Jeffrey Stevensen <email@hidden>,
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> Subject: Re: monitors at 5000K 6500K??
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> Probably our eyes are not behaving the same.
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> I get the best match with my monitors at 6000K and the GTI viewing booth at
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> 5000K under the condition that I use the dimmer and get a similar brightness
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> as well between the two.
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> I always ask the opinion from my customers on site as well and up till now
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> they all agreed: it's between 6000 and 6500K, but 6000K seems to be closer.
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> 6500K slightly too cool.
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> But 5000K? My monitor and all the monitors from loads of customers on site
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> are far too warm and definitely more yellow than any GTI viewing booth at
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> 5000K.
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> Maybe we see colours differently on the other side of the ocean.
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> Regards,
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> Udo
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> United Kingdom
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> on 7/1/03 4:49 pm, Jeffrey Stevensen at email@hidden wrote:
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>> RE: Monitor White Point
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>> Why feel compelled to use 5000K or 6500K? I found my best match to my gti
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>> viewing booth with my Lacie monitor set to 5500K, calibrating with Prove It.
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>> Where 6500 looked too cool to me with Adobe RGB, and 5000 too warm, 5500
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>> matches closely the reading of the actual color temperature of my viewing
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>> booth, and side by side with proof on screen and in the booth it is very
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>> faithful. The extra 500K bump is just enough for the average good
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>> flat-screen Mits monitor to eliminate the yellow appearance of 5000K.
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>> -Jeff Stevensen
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>>> Message: 13
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>>> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:06:03 +0000
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>>> Subject: Re: Monitor White Point-5000 or 6500K?
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>>> From: "Udo J. Machiels" <email@hidden>
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>>> To: Roger Breton <email@hidden>, <email@hidden>
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>>> Calibrating a monitor at 5000K? Good for you, but you will be never able
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>>> to
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>>> get a visual white point match between a Graphic Technology Viewing booth
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>>> 5000K and your monitor at 5000K.
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>>> Good luck with it.
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>>> Udo
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