Re: Monitor profile verification
Re: Monitor profile verification
- Subject: Re: Monitor profile verification
- From: Klaus Karcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:41:14 +0100
Klaus Karcher wrote:
I's somewhat misleading to use a instrument to verify it's own results:
Marco Ugolini wrote:
Not if one's purpose is to verify the *internal consistency* of a monitor
profile
Agreed. It's not misleading to perform internal consistency checks, but
it's definitely misleading to "sell" the results as a sufficient quality
criterion for softproofing applications.
My intention was to place emphasis on the difference between this
(definitely relevant) internal consistency check and the validation of a
system against *external* references with tools like the UDACT
<http://ugra.ch/index.php?show=299>: Both methods are not capable to
evaluate the absolute accuracy, but only the latter one can tell whether
a system is able to reproduce the colors of a specified application or
not (assumed the measurement device is sufficiently accurate). Tools
like UDACT are indispensable for the evaluation of softproofing systems IMO.
Reading display "reviews" in several user-to-user forums sometimes makes
me smile, especially when the reviewer quotes those internal validation
results and in the same breath argues to "see" what he thinks the
validation report told him to see. A fictitious example: "the validation
tool X revealed a distinct weakness in the blue region (Delta E > 0.4),
and in fact shades of blue look of the mark on display Y". I ask myself:
what visual reference did the reviewer use to arrive at this conclusion?
Under which viewing conditions? What was the precision of his
measurement device? (Graeme Gill alluded to Delta E's above 5 between
different display colorimeters a few weeks ago). I'm sure that even the
dispersion of high quality reference prints is a multiple of the
variations those "Experts" claim to see.
When I see that the gamut deficiencies of displays we use today for
softproofing purposes are roughly 20 times as much as typical internal
validation errors, I feel obliged to put the different validation
methods and their area of application in perspective.
Regards,
Klaus Karcher
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