Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
- Subject: Re: NEC or Eizo Monitor
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:47:51 +0100
I don't find it weird. I find the lack of cooperation and testing
between vendors frightening.
There need to be some reference configurations which we all know have
been tested to calibrate for monitor and print work at a prosumer
level - even if they are just iMacs.
Edmund
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:12 AM, <email@hidden> wrote:
> I just did the same thing and went with the NEC based on Andrew's recs.
> I got the smaller 222 model to try it out which I think is a PVA panel and
> not an IPS like the 2 larger sizes.
>
> Mine is a little darker toward the right and left edges than my friends
> Eizo 22 which is very even looking.
>
> I have had a few unresolved problems with the NEC though.
>
> When calibrating on my G5 with 10.4 or my Macbook Pro with 10.5 using
> spectraview and the NEC puck, the screen would come out very pink using
> the default d65 settings. When I used my Optix XR puck with spectraview on
> the same machines the screen came out good and neutral.
>
> NEC sent me a new puck in a timely matter but that did not fix the pink
> cast and behaved the same as the first puck. NEC has since broke off
> contact with me which left me to use the (incorrect) optix puck as that
> was better than manually tweaking the WP.
>
> Fast forward a few weeks and I build a 'hackintosh' tower running 10.6.2
> with the same spectraview version 1.1.03 and suddenly the NEC puck seems
> to be working correctly with that machine, no pink cast and has smoother
> gradients in photoshop than the optix puck. Also a green to magenta cast
> across the screen that was visible on the other 2 machines is not visible
> on the hackintosh.
> I find this very weird and am not sure if it's snow leopard causing the
> positive change or the components in the (lifehacker build) hackintosh.
> I'm also not sure if there might be a bigger issue of this combo not
> actually adjusting the white point at all and maybe I'm seeing the default
> WP instead which is pretty good. I need to test more.
>
> To further confuse things, on this new machine, when I choose different
> matrix profiles of different gammas in the monitor CP, I get opposite
> behavior than what I have seen before. For instance, choosing a 2.2 gamma
> like A98 now makes my desktop LIGHTER and choosing a 1.8 like colormatch
> or apple makes it DARKER. That's backward I thought. I know snow leopard
> moved to a default 2.2 gamma but don't see how that plays into this.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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