Re: Barco vs Eizo
Re: Barco vs Eizo
- Subject: Re: Barco vs Eizo
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:10:38 -0700
At 1:56 AM -0700 9/14/05, Marco Ugolini wrote:
>
>I'm not knocking the Eizos and NECs. I'm sure they are great. But it feels
>like something is still missing in this picture. Is there really, as Michael
>says, a risk of the new displays' quality rapidly surpassing that of the
>measuring devices?
I think that what we are coming up against is purpose-build/calibrated colorimeters being used for things they were not intended.
One of the limitations faced with a colorimeter is that there are a handful of filters inside and they, AND the instrument's response to them, are tuned to certain expectations. If the expectations are narrower - like a bundled puck with a certain monitor - then the opportunity exists to tune it more finely (if that's a word) and perhaps have it be more accurate for its bundled purpose. No matter what though, they are tuned to certain expectations and they can fail.
It turns out that something outside the limits of those expectations is now available in the EIZO CG220. The green is simply not in the range that current colorimeters expect. That doesn't mean a colorimeter won't work at all but some will probably work better than others.
This is another situation where a spectrophotometer comes to the rescue. At one point in time the SpectroLino was the only reliable way to profile an LCD because LCDs were new and colorimeters weren't built to deal with them. Now we have more general-purpose colorimeters which can handle CRT and LCD but probably should be retuned for large-gamut LCD. EIZO is now recommending the Eye-One Pro (spectro) for calibration of their CG220 display..
and so it goes...
At 7:10 AM -0400 9/14/05, Roger Breton wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>Just to be sure. I'm not the original poster of this 220 opinion, below,
>even though it says "Roger Breton at email@hidden wrote".
yeah, sorry about that. Bad clipping on my part. I knew it wasn't you but somehow messed up my post...
Regards,
Steve
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