Re: Artisan calibration/soft proof workflow
Re: Artisan calibration/soft proof workflow
- Subject: Re: Artisan calibration/soft proof workflow
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:23:15 -0700
On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Richard Kenward wrote:
The Artisan seems to be getting the thumbs up and one can always find
an excuse for waiting.... just a bit longer, but just as I was about
to order one along came that announcement about the Diamondtron
RDF225WG with a gamut very close to that of ARGB.
Now I realize that it is unlikely to have the same level of accuracy
as the Artisan and accuracy is all important here, but I wonder in
gamut terms just what percentage of the ARGB gamut this does. If the
difference is marginal then there is little point in my waiting any
longer!
I think it depends on the kind of work you do. If you regularly find
yourself editing in a medium to wide gamut RGB space in fine detail
areas of heavy saturation, you're flying blind much of the time. If the
new DiamondTron has the full Adobe RGB gamut, this would be a plus
because then you could see your edits better.
But then again, if your end product is print, especially press then
these very saturated reds, greens and blues don't matter to you anyway.
But then again, if your end product is print but contains fine detail
in very saturated magentas, yellow-greens and cyans, then an Adobe RGB
monitor will show these colors which are out of gamut on other CRTs.
And then if consistency of dynamic range is important to you
(consistent contrast), and having a "digital original" that is reliable
over time then there isn't a comparison to an Artisan.
And also I wonder how today's colorimeters will perform with a new
phosphor set, as colorimeters are made assuming a particular phosphor
set (or average of them), the exception being the DTP92/94 from XRite
which uses a different set of assumptions. In any event, the point here
is that you may need an emissive spectrophotometer or new colorimeters
that take such a drastically different phosphor set into account, in
order to calibrate and profile such a thing.
Has anyone worked with this monitor yet? I know it's not yet available
in the U.S. but maybe someone in Japan can let us know how they are
calibrating/profiling this display and how well it's working out.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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