Re: Repetitive Calibration with Optical
Re: Repetitive Calibration with Optical
- Subject: Re: Repetitive Calibration with Optical
- From: "Adriano Von Markendorf" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:40:14 -0200
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>4. C. David Tobie brought up a very interesting issued regarding the
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>whitepoint setting in Optical. I have been setting the whitepoint to
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>D65 in PreCal and D65 in Optical. Is this double defining the
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>whitepoint?
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Yes, which isn't the end of the world, but the default in recent versions
of
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OptiCAL is Native for a reason... its best to leave it there.
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>5. Standard or Precision mode, which one?
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Is there some reason that you are trying to reset the idle of your engine?
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Your monitor has current black and white luminance values. If you use the
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front panel to adjust all three guns to the desired total luminance in
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PreCAL, there is really no reason to retarget white with the Precision
mode.
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And there is usually no reason to reset black either... if you set it too
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low, it starts bumping into the bottom, reducing the smoothness and
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neutrality of the lowest grays; if you raise it, you are reducing the
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deepness of your blacks. You generally don't need to do any of this; just
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leave it in Standard mode, set the desired luminance in PreCAL, and set
the
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black visually for the sensitivity of your eyes in your location
(something a
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device based black reading in not going to consider), and call it good.
Excelent and precise explanation.
I wish that CM manual's (CV / PM / PO / Mnc and many others..) would write
like this.
Many thank's.
Adriano V.M.
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