Re: Spectraview Software and Gamut Question
Re: Spectraview Software and Gamut Question
- Subject: Re: Spectraview Software and Gamut Question
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:12:37 -0700
- Thread-topic: Spectraview Software and Gamut Question
On 11/28/07 7:58 PM, "Graeme Gill" wrote:
> The Huey isn't as bad as it seems, if you're using it on a wide
> viewing angle device. It's basically the same electronics and
> sensors as an i1 Display 2, and the one that comes with the Samsung
> is supposed to have had it's calibration matrix tweaked to suite the
> spectral response of that display, so it may actually work quite well
> with the XL20 compared to other display colorimeters.
It really does seem to get a bad rap. I did a review when it first came out.
NO, I wasn't about to trade in my OPTIX XR for it but it did a good job of
calibrating the devices I tested. Yes, the Ambient light functionally is
dumb (and apparently a new device on the market is doing this). The message
shouldn't be "let your environment go wacky all day long, we'll measure and
compensate". But then the market for this product was targeted to novice
users who think Adobe Gamma is useful, people who wouldn't dream of spending
a few hundred dollars on an instrument and those who have lots of windows
surrounded by pink walls! I've seen the units on sale for as little as $69.
So, you get what you pay for and it beats eyeball calibration by a mile.
I would assume those with $20K Spectroradiometer feel the same way about the
OPTIX, EyeOne Display and Pro as some here do about the huey. But it serves
the market it was designed for well.
Now, how well it works with the Samsung unit even with special filters?
Chris Murphy, Karl Lang and I saw it well over a year ago behind closed
doors and we didn't jump up and down when we saw the huey, worse at the
time, the software they used to drive it. But the price point was amazing!
This was when the NEC LED was nearly $5K so this seemed like a fantastic
product based on the technology and price point. We couldn¹t fault them for
not getting a more expensive instrument. Then this Samsung product (and all
the people we talked to) just disappeared from the face of the earth despite
all of us trying to find out what when the product would ship. Then it
surfaced, very quietly. So I'm not sure what up with this unit.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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