Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- Subject: Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:05:24 EDT
In a message dated 9/1/03 8:43:34 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I also teach in a university
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environment and one of the problem we face in our lab is that everyone has
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different 'viewing' needs. So, the first thing most students do the nimute
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they logs on to one of the WindowsXP stations in the labs is to fool around
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with the OSD controls of the 19" Phillips Brillance CRTs to suit their
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preferences. Some use Maya and Autocad so they want all the luminance they
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can get from the monitors.
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CAD, at least architectural CAD, is often dealing with photorealistic
rendering and photographic images placed in the sheet these days, so a calibration to
reasonable standards is appropriate here; its not just cartoon color anymore.
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Others use video editing apps like Premiere and I
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don't know what are the requirements for video editing.
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OptiCAL has long offered calibration standards such as NTSC and PAL_SECAM for
varying types of editing work...
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Others still, like
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me and my students, do image editing and DTP so we use 6500K calibration
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(I'd prefer 5000K personnally but that scares the uninitiated everytime).
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There is no way to satisfy everyone and no one group is willing to give up
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for the sake of one unifying standard
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Thats why a wide range of standards are available for monitor calibration.
But it does make open Labs (as opposed to ones specific to digital imaging
etc..) more challenging, and often more time consuming.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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