Re: SONY Artisan chromaticities
Re: SONY Artisan chromaticities
- Subject: Re: SONY Artisan chromaticities
- From: Richard Kenward <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:29:59 +0100
In message Mon, 26 May 2003, Andrew Rodney writes
on 5/26/03 4:54 AM, Richard Kenward wrote:
Looking forward to a really convincing argument for buying the Artisan
(Reference) rather than a top of the range Sony CRT or LCD screen.
Start here:
http://www.macworld.com/2003/01/reviews/sonyartisan/
Dear Andrew
Thanks for that. Actually I had already seen the magazine write up and
the info on the Sony site, and it all seemed rather thin on substance.
Perhaps I should have been impressed reading of the Emmy award winning
Trinitron CRT display, the thoughtful design for high performance, the
easy to grip sensor along with it's sleek case, the ease of calibration
and the free give away Colour management book...bought that as soon as
it came out...a great book!!
There is rather too much space being devoted to hot air and not enough
on substance, which says one thing to me! So as I see it, this seems to
come down basically to a decent display, a hood to cut glare, an 'idiot'
proof calibration system where you can set a definite white and black
points if you are adventurous, or accept the presets and enjoy a stable
and neutral grey scale. I was rather surprised to learn that the preset
for the world of print is set to D50 and 1.8..........for the last two
or three years I thought that we were being advised by the colour gurus
that unless we were using an Apple badged CRT screen, we would get a
better match to proof by using D65 and 2.2 allowed a better assessment
of shadow detail. Oh well it seems Sony have different ideas.
The Sony Artisan is designed to be an absolute color reference. Each display
will reproduce an identical colorspace within the tolerance of the system to
an NIST reference. This means each display matches another.
That would be great if everyone we did business with had one in tip top
condition and used it in the ideal viewing conditions, but that's not
the real world unfortunately. That's not going to stop me looking for a
quality screen with a larger colour gamut such as Barco boast, I had
rather hoped that the Artisan offered this.
And this
includes dynamic range. No competing system has any specified tolerance for
black, Sony does. The Artisan colorimeter is unique. It uses phosphor
matched filters and a special calibration system to achieve a level of
accuracy equivalent to a $15,000 spectroradiometer. It will not produce this
accuracy on another display, the colorimeter is matched to the Artisan. That
is how sony achieves the accuracy. The specifications are available on the
website www.sony.com/artisan . The primary differences between the Sony
artisan and any competitor are;
Fixed dynamic range
What's the big deal here and how does this give me a real advantage?
Perfectly neutral greyscale all the way to black
Is this not what one buys a top of the range calibrator and Optical for,
if so I've already got this part.
absolute minimum color aliasing
A bit of explanation needed please.
High purity specification
I wonder how this is different in real terms to the model it's built
around, after all this is a low volume screen. At the price they are
charging there cannot be enough in the price to be doing anything very
special surely. For anyone in the market for a good screen, a decent
monitor calibrator and software, this kit is not expensive. Perhaps I
am being unduly cynical
proper tone response curve, even in the very dark shadow range.
Again why is this not possible with Optical?
Extreme accuracy of the color profile primaries.
Does this really make that much difference and more importantly will it
allow me to see an increased gamut, or will I still have to rely on a
CMYK ink jet print from say a BestcolorProof rip for that?
Andrew Rodney
Sorry to still be unimpressed, I will continue to keep an open mind
until convinced one way or the other.
Many thanks for your posting.
Cheers
Richard
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Richard Kenward
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