Re: iMac monitor and calibration
Re: iMac monitor and calibration
- Subject: Re: iMac monitor and calibration
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 12:33:10 +0200
The question is whether the screens are good enough for color-critical work.
These new glossy screens are the worst yet seen on iMacs.
Buying a used system -even an older 20" iMac - might be better for
your photography.
Also, there are some quite decent *cheap* screens out there which make
the MacPro option feasible.
The Apple Cinema Displays themselves aren't too bad; at least they
weren't too bad a year or so ago.
I would recommend you search out a creative solution for your problem.
Note that for photography the wide format is a waste of screen real
estate, a more square-ish ratio is preferable.
I'm sure members of this list will provide model numbers for *cheap*
decent screens for retouching, if you ask nicely -
Edmund
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Gene Snyder <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am a serious amateur photographer who soon needs to part ways with his
> present G4. Presently I use a calibrated monitor (which I recalibrate
> periodically) and some custom printer profiles for several papers as part of
> my workflow in Photoshop. I initially thought of replacing my present system
> with a Mac Pro plus a NEC multisync LCD display - but that gets pretty
> pricey (for me) quickly.
>
> So my question is - can one calibrate the display on an iMac so that one
> can do color-critical work, are the display characteristics sufficiently
> stable that one would need to recalibrate only occasionally (say, every
> month or so), and have people who are Photoshop-intensive found the iMac
> adequate for that purpose? All comments are welcome.
>
>
>
> Gene Snyder
> email@hidden
>
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