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: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:41:08 -0500
For those new to monitor calibration, basICColor display 4 offers presets
covering a range of common needs. Included are both D50 and D65 options.
Laptops are also defaulted to native.
For those who wish to learn what their flat panel is producing, two options
exist in the color temperature tab: native and measured chromaticity. Each
will produce feedback to the user indicating the color temp of the system.
Apple has produced Cinema Displays in the 4800-5200 range and in the 6400
to 6600 range. I saw a Dell with RGBs equal in the monitor hardware menu
producing 5700 degrees.
Eizo and better NEC displays can be set to your choice of color temps
between 5000 and 6500 to match a Just Normlicht light box (which can also
be controlled by basICColor display for matching purposes). This is because
the better monitors offer 10 and 12 bit onboard LUTs.
Lesser monitors often produce more uniform results when calibrated to the
native white point of the display.
One workgroup containing 8 Cinema Displays found native results spread
between 4800 and 5200. In this case, better uniformity in the workgroup was
achieved by setting all of the optimized calibration targets to 5000. The
displays at 4800 and 5200 were very close to those which better approached
the 5000 native accuracy - however one could recognize those same displays
which had the 200 degree deviation as being very subtly below the quality
of the units which were natively closer to the 5000 degree target.
Executive Summary:
Unless the flat panel display offers 10 bit or greater onboard LUT support
or one wants to produce an optimized workgroup calibration, select either
Native or Measured Chromaticity options.
Original Message:
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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?
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