Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 227
Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 227
- Subject: Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 227
- From: Scott Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:24:44 -0500
> I’ll jump in here as well. I profile my two, they’re a pair, MacBook Pro 8,3 17 inch non-glare display with
> i1profiler and i1pro spectro. Really not usable for anything serious.
But that's not the retina display he asked about right?
> Profiling the NEC PA271w with the same hardware software combination is what I use for serious work.
> Of course even though the Retina display is nice, it's not going to match up well with a quality external display for critical color editing.
While that might be the conventional thinking, I've got to say I'm finding otherwise. You'd think if you pay that much money for a high bit display that it should be better - right? [It better be better!] But when I have my rMBP hooked up to said NEC PA271 I'm finding advantages to the rMBP that surprise me. The smaller screen is a disadvantage but the higher resolution is a big plus - especially when it comes to judging image sharpness, localized contrast and detail. Having that many pixels in such high density allows me to visualize a smaller print much better than a lower res display like the 217w does.
When printing to processes that have exceptional DMax - baryta inkjet printing for example - I've long been frustrated with the DMax differences between a matte surface display like the 271w and the printing process. We've always had to say "well... the blacks will be evener darker in print and the extreme shadow detail harder to perceive, and the overall contrast a little greater.."' and compensate for that. Of course my photo work is almost exclusivly done at night has has tons of extreme shadow detail and dark saturated colors so I feel these differences perhaps more than the average person. But I'm finding that the retina display, with it's richer DMax is far more capable of showing me the, blacks, shadows, and dark saturated colors much better than any NEC or Eizo I've worked on. And I find the color gamut and gradations to be remarkably smooth for a 8 bit display, even when compared side-by-side with a PA271.
So I think it's time to take another look at these display comparisons particularly as it relates to matching the Dmax of a printing process. If you only print to cotton rag mate surface papers, then by all means stick with a matte surface display, but I'd not overlook a retina display for preparing work to processes with super rick blacks. A 30+" 4K retina display would be (will be!) interesting.
Scott Martin
www.on-sight.com
www.martinphoto.com
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