Re: iMac Monitor calibration
Re: iMac Monitor calibration
- Subject: Re: iMac Monitor calibration
- From: Paul Schilliger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:15:51 +0200
I had actually read so much praise stuff on the NEC that I was expecting it to be a jewel from outer space. Now that it is sitting on my desk, I realize how good my old iMac 24 non glare screen is! Its matte finish is unnoticeable, contrarily to the NEC Multisync PA sandy whites (I'm told though that the current SV Reference has a different panel). I have used that iMac to produce many printed materials with quite good results, as well as an Apple Cinema before, and so have many much more knowledgeable people than I. I have no means of comparing the NEC with the newer iMac — is it still the shiny mirror glass? — but put side by side with the old 2006 iMac and the new MBP Retina, they look pretty much in sync. Only when it comes to very saturated hues, the so called low end screens show some posterization, where the NEC still has gradient. In very dark hues as well, the NEC is capable of showing smoother transitions. But if you'd ask me, from a pragmatic point of view, a very
small percentage of the images that are usually treated contain those highly saturated and/or very dark hues, and will actually benefit from being edited in the extended gamut, but take that as an uneducated point de vue. The quality of the calibration tools on the other hand is primordial and I don't regret the amount spent on upgrading to an i1DisplayPro.
Paul Schilliger
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Regarding the critical profiling of the new iMac display, it will never every match the NEC display. It is just not built the way the independent NEC is.
Cheers, David
Millers' Photography L.L.C.
David Miller, member
Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:19:56 -0400
From: David Ramsey<email@hidden>
To: Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center
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Subject: Re: iMac Monitor calibration
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Apologies if I wasn't clear. I am wanting to calibrate best as possible my iMac screen. Is this realistic? I will still be using the NEC along side as the bellwether but having both in somewhat sync would be great. Since the iMac has it's brightness control as part of the keyboard, like notebooks, is there any way to override this so those of us who type badly do not constantly change the brightness not on purpose?
David Ramsey
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