Re: Re-LCD Monitor Profile question.
Re: Re-LCD Monitor Profile question.
- Subject: Re: Re-LCD Monitor Profile question.
- From: "Bob Frost" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:10:42 +0100
Michael,
I found your comments interesting, because I have had to give up using my
Formac Gallery 20 for color-matching to prints. It simply isn't accurate
when profiled with Optical and a LCD Spyder. It always has a magenta tinge.
I still use it for the initial work on images, because the screen is so
sharp and easy to view in daylight. But for the final color matching I've
resorted to an Artisan. Nowhere near as nice to work with, but the colors
seem dead accurate.
Bob Frost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lithgow from Colourhead" <email@hidden>
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My preferred method with calibrating LCDs is to adjust brightness to
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give me the closet match to the colour temp. aim point. All the LCDs I
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have calibrated are balanced towards 65ook at default and as adjusting
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the brightness has an effect on the colour temp. it makes good sense to
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try to get the hardware as close as possible by this this one and only
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adjustment available. In ProfileMaker if you click forward through a few
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steps you can get to the colour temp step and adjust the brightness
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while taking a reading. One of my criticisms of i1Match is that when
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reading LCDs it does not allow a colour temp reading of any sort, even
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in advanced mode. The same goes for Monaco Profiler 4.5, which for some
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strange reason does not have a gun adjustment step at all, even with
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CRTs. OptiCal has a colorimeter mode which provides a Kelvin readout.
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The Formac 20" LCD is nearest 6500k at it brightest setting, 6100k on
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the one I worked on. Interestingly, of the two Gretag products the
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i1Display colorimeter in Match provided the best shaped profile so you
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could just use my finding of selecting the brightest setting and settle
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on Match with the colorimeter, presuming you also have access to the
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colorimeter which Match uses. Match looks for the i1Display colorimeter
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upon starting.
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The Formac 20" profiled well with an accurate greyscale and in my
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opinion is a great unit with impressive blacks for an LCD.
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