Re: Nec SpectraView LCD2180 Wide Gamut LED
Re: Nec SpectraView LCD2180 Wide Gamut LED
- Subject: Re: Nec SpectraView LCD2180 Wide Gamut LED
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:22:23 -0700
At 12:06 PM -0400 9/11/05, Roger Breton wrote:
I had to change the subject line.
May I ask what instrument are you using to calibrate with the SpectraView
software (which is basICcolor Display v3.5+ in NEC's clothing)?
That's a very different version of Spectraview than the one I have,
which is Spectraview II, was written by Will Hollingsworth of Mits,
and bears zero resemblance to BasICColor display.
I'm using the Gretagmacbeth i1 Display (the only supported
instruments at this time are the i1 display and i1 spectro, and I
haven't seen an advantage using the spectro).
I'm calibrating to 200cd/m2 6500K white, native gamma, using the
factory colorimetry for primaries (I'm not convinced that the i1
display can measure the primaries accurately), and I'm getting
near-perfect grayscale tracking-certainly as good as anything I've
seen on any other display.
Spectraview II has a great many options. Sorting through them and
testing them all takes quite a while.
The display has a variable white point backlight because the
backlight is comprised of red, green, and blue LEDs that are
individually controllable, so you can vary the white point just as
you can with a CRT.
I'm using the 2180WG as my main imaging monitor now. Making the
switch wasn't trivial, because I've had to change pretty much
everything. I'm working in higher ambient light, I can make
screen-to-print comparisons with properly-lit prints instead of
peering at dimly-lit ones in a throttled-back light box. The display
is brutal at revealing flaws in the proofing side of output profiles
(and in the output side, if it comes to that), so I've had to rebuild
or edit many of my printer profiles.
But there's no way I'd go back! I think fluorescent backlights are on
deathwatch now.
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