Re: New Macbook glossy LED display calibration problem
Re: New Macbook glossy LED display calibration problem
- Subject: Re: New Macbook glossy LED display calibration problem
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:26:13 -0800
- Thread-topic: New Macbook glossy LED display calibration problem
In a message dated 1/29/09 2:12 PM, Alessandro Zanardi wrote:
> Hi, I did some other testing between yesterday and today. I have used the
> i1Display 2 and the Spyder3elite. Both of them seem not very well suited for
> the task. The Spyder3 doesn't give bad results but the colors are not ok,
> the i1Display would give good colors if it were possible to take that
> consistent red shift away, which makes the profiles unusable in the end.
Again, I strongly recommend that you purchase an external monitor. The best
results you can possibly extract from your laptop's display will still be
markedly inferior to those offered even by a moderately good desktop
display.
> I know this sounds very "unprofessional", but the best results that I could
> get by far, came from Apple calibration utility, fine tuning what I could
> see on screen against pictures printed on a well profiled printer from a
> photo lab. As my purpose was to be sure that what I see on screen is close
> to what is printed in the end, this was the more reliable way to go.
I thought you mentioned in your previous message that you wanted to be able
to soft-proof "as accurately as possible for printing purposes". If you aim
for professional results, you should use professional tools, and those
include both a good display and good calibration/profiling gear.
You may think that calibrating and profiling by eye works, but, as your
needs and expertise grow, you'll see that such is not the case.
> For in studio work I would not recomend any of these means (rather using a
> proper professional desktop LCD), but for some things that people could need
> to do on the fly, this seems to be reasonable.
Doesn't that contradict your stated purpose of accurate soft-proofing? It's
now downgraded to "reasonable", "on-the-fly" soft-proofing?
> It's amazing that with all these technology that we have around us,
> sometimes our eyes are still the best measurement instrument that we could
> ever have :)
No -- you may think so, but it's definitely not true. Our eyes are good at
comparing colors to one another side by side, but lousy at reading absolute
values.
Marco Ugolini
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