Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles with basICColor v4
Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles with basICColor v4
- Subject: Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles with basICColor v4
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:12:28 -0800
In a message dated 12/19/06 1:20 PM, Robert Rock wrote:
> I too am using BasICColor Display v4. I often read conflicting opinions about
> whether to use D50 or D65 as a color temp for the display. 5000K has been the
> norm for years, but lately everyone seems to suggest D65 is more accurate or
> more useful. BasICColor defaults at D50, but should I in fact be setting up as
> D65? Any thoughts?
You should try using both D50 and D65 in calibrating your monitor, and see
which provides the best results for you. A good start in doing that would be
to have a viewing booth next to the monitor in a darkened environment, then
match the brightness of both the monitor and the white back of the booth as
closely as possible to one another. That is easier to achieve if the *booth*
has a dimmer, since fine-tuning the monitor's brightness is not done as
easily.
Once you the brightnesses match, you may experience that the monitor's
whites may look too yellow compared to the booth's, which means that the
monitor ought to be brought up to a CCT (correlated color temperature)
higher than D50 to match the color of the white back of the D50 booth. Try
gradually increasing its CCT using your profiling software's white point
settings, for example by increments of 500 Kelvin (5500, 6000, 6500, etc),
until things start looking like they match.
One could be a stickler, ignore the visual mismatch, and insist on
calibrating the monitor for D50 because the booth is rated as D50, but if
its whites end up looking too yellow compared to the booth, then the logical
choice is be to increase the monitor's CCT until the target is reached. That
is the rule of thumb as I understand it.
Regards.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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