Monitor to monitors displaying the same image
Monitor to monitors displaying the same image
- Subject: Monitor to monitors displaying the same image
- From: "Tintera, Charles V" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:09:19 -0400
- Thread-topic: Monitor to monitors displaying the same image
Soren said:
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:38:18 +0200
From: S ? ren Lindqvist <email@hidden>
Subject: Monitor to monitors displaying the same image
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I have read many articles about the importance of calibrating and
profiling your monitor. I certainly agree with this, but when reading
further down the lines telling that identical numbers produce identical
color appearances on different monitors it gets hard for me to agree.
For example (worse case) one uses an high end monitor like Eizo
ColorEdge or Quato in the production room and next person in the office
room checking the production using a Laptop. This Laptop has been
calibrated as well and as we all know a Laptop has a limited color
gamut. The production will never look the same as on a high end monitor,
the gamut in the laptop is much too small for being able to show those
subtle tones in a fine image. I hear too often "our screens are
calibrated so everything is ok" is it really so? They automatically take
it for granted that when its calibrated you will have the same look when
opening an image on different screens. If you work with a high end
monitor and sending images for approval to a company that might look at
the images on a laptop, what do you do? They tell you they use
calibrated screens but you don't know what screens they are
using....Would it not be a good way to tell that color appearance will
look identical if the screens are of equal quality, if not....?
Or is there something I am missing?
Regards
Soren
We are currently working on a real world example of this - a portrait.
What should have been a fairly straight-forward task (make image xyy
into 8x10, 11x14 & 16x20 prints AND a jpeg for a web page) has turned
into something of a pointing match.
Expert #1 "The (web page)image is bad because..."
Expert #2 "No, the(web page)image is bad because ..."
.
.
.
Expert #nn "No you're all wrong, the (web page)image is bad because ..."
What is actually happening is that WYSIWYG does not exist, not in the
real world. To accomplish true WYSIWYG each and every viewer would need
the same eyeballs, the same brain, the same emotions, the same diet, the
same software and the same hardware. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
We are all open-mouth amazed at what "experts" are accepting as "true"
(ie WYSIWYG) on monitors that aren't fit to be tea trays.
However 'expert" they may (or may not) be, they are still customers :-(
cvt
We succeed only as much as we fit the structure around us.
Charles "Chuck" Tintera
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