Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
- Subject: Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:53:04 -0600
On Aug 20, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Bob Frost wrote:
> But I thought that a custom colorimeter is the only way to go if you want
> the best results (apart from an exotic spectroradiometer or something like
> Basiccolor Discus). You can buy cheaper general purpose colorimeters, but
> they won't give the same results as one designed for a particular type of
> monitor.
Correct.
> My old Sony Artisan (that was highly thought of) had a custom colorimeter.
Yup, and it only worked on that display. Wonderfully too I’ll add.
On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Rich Wagner wrote:
> When I bought the HP DreamColor monitor, I certainly never expected (nor was I informed) that the $350 HP-XRite DreamColor colorimeter would *only* function with the bundled HP-XRite software, or that the software would not support the Eye-One Pro, or that the software would be so poor and feature-deprived, or that other software would not have DDC access to the monitor controls.
And when you took this up with HP, their response was?
> As for the NEC-XRite colorimeter - the so-called "MDSVSENSOR2" that has matched filters for the wide-gamut monitors like the NEC PA271w I recently purchased. There is significant debate in the "user world" as to whether this device functions in "wide-gamut mode" using the "wide-gamut" matched filters/matrix *only* with "U.S. SpectraView" software, and reverts to a "retail" iOne Display 2 if used with other (non-US SpectraView) software, or whether it provides accurate data for wide-gamut monitors regardless of the software driving it.
Where would we find this significant debate of users and what’s the matrix for the term significant? I know of two such end users who so far, haven’t provided very good descriptions of how they came to this conclustion despite being asked.
> This particularly plays out with the "BasICColor vs SpectraView" debate, as there are some who claim SpectraView profiles are vastly superior, even though re-branded BasICColor Display software ships with NEC monitors in Europe.
Oh, are we going to go through this silly LUT vs Matrix non-scientific tested debate here too? The “significant“ debate of two end users with zero empirically defined testing procedures who came up with this idea on the LuLa forums are not going to find their ‘theories’ hold much water in this fourm, assuming they can even describe the processes they used to come up with this idea.
Andrew Rodney
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