Calibrating and Profiling the MacBook Pro Retina
I have received my MacBook Pro Retina. Very nice. We have three devices that can calibrate monitors: The EyeOne Pro (old), EyeOne Display (old) and a NEC branded Spectraview GammaComp MD ( EyeOne Display ). Working in Lion does anyone know which device and which software will actually do the job? Can SpectraviewII software calibrate a NEC P221W through the Retina's minidisplay port? I have seen in an article by CD Tobie that Datacolor's Spyder is one solution. Cheers, Barry Rudick Aker Imaging Houston
On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Barry Rudick wrote:
Can SpectraviewII software calibrate a NEC P221W through the Retina's minidisplay port?
That should work fine since the instrument and display are working together. Same for any external display. But for the Retina display itself, I don’t think anything is yet designed to handle it. I did read a post from someone with this new MacPro who stated that until he plugged the colorimeter into a powered hub, it wouldn’t work on the Macbook. Andrew Rodney http://www.digitaldog.net/
On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Andrew Rodney wrote:
That should work fine since the instrument and display are working together. Same for any external display. But for the Retina display itself, I don’t think anything is yet designed to handle it.
I did read a post from someone with this new MacPro who stated that until he plugged the colorimeter into a powered hub, it wouldn’t work on the Macbook.
Spyder4 is working from the Retina display MacBook Pro USB ports, and calibrating the screen nicely. Its a pretty reasonable screen, sRGB sized gamut, reasonable native whitepoint and TRC, so that only minor adjustments to WP and tone response curve are needed. If other devices are having issues they may draw more power from the USB port than the Spyder. C. David Tobie Global Product Technology Manager Datacolor 5 Princess Road Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA 609.924.2189 www.datacolor.com Phone: 207.685.9248 Mobile: 207.312.0448 Fax: 207.685.4455 Email: cdtobie@datacolor.com Skype: cdtobie
On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Andrew Rodney wrote:
That should work fine since the instrument and display are working together. Same for any external display. But for the Retina display itself, I don’t think anything is yet designed to handle it.
I did read a post from someone with this new MacPro who stated that until he plugged the colorimeter into a powered hub, it wouldn’t work on the Macbook.
Spyder4 is working from the Retina display MacBook Pro USB ports, and calibrating the screen nicely. Its a pretty reasonable screen, sRGB sized gamut, reasonable native whitepoint and TRC, so that only minor adjustments to WP and tone response curve are needed. If other devices are having issues they may draw more power from the USB port than the Spyder. C. David Tobie Global Product Technology Manager Datacolor 5 Princess Road Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA 609.924.2189 www.datacolor.com Phone: 207.685.9248 Mobile: 207.312.0448 Fax: 207.685.4455 Email: cdtobie@datacolor.com Skype: cdtobie
On 26 Jun 2012, at 21:13, Barry Rudick wrote:
I have received my MacBook Pro Retina. Very nice.
No problems with the burn in that some other users are reporting then? <http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120623_2-MacBookPro-Retina-screen-burn-in-ghost-images.html> -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
I have not seen any burn-in or ghosting at all. I did notice that the brightness function keys do not seem to work. The brightness on the System Prefs, Display pane does affect the brightness. I tried to cal and profile last night. Results: The iProfile Lion Display app will not work with the old iOne Pro. Not surprised. iProfiler will connect to the old iOne Pro. I used an USB hub for that. The bad: iProfile must be licensed before it will save the resulting profile. Bummer. The spectro does not act as a dongle. This does not make me happy although I understand that Xrite needs an incentive to offer system upgrades. However, after buying and upgrading Profilemaker over the years it gets a little tiresome. To gain Lion functionality I would have to spend about $1000.00? To profile a monitor? No thanks. Now, we do need to upgrade our spectro to the new one. However, at this time the RIP's Colorburst's Spectravision Pro (Xrite software) does not recognize the new iOne Pro2. So, no incentive to buy. We will probably keep a Mac with Leopard to run our RGB profiles through Profilemaker. I will personally buy a display colorimeter to handle the Retina and external NEC. Our fleet of Mac Pro's are at Snow Leopard and we will probably resist going to Lion for the foreseeable future. Cheers, Barry On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
On 26 Jun 2012, at 21:13, Barry Rudick wrote:
I have received my MacBook Pro Retina. Very nice.
No problems with the burn in that some other users are reporting then?
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On Jun 27, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Barry Rudick <barryr@azphoto.com> wrote:
I did notice that the brightness function keys do not seem to work. The brightness on the System Prefs, Display pane does affect the brightness.
Open System Preferences, Keyboard, Keyboard tab, and uncheck "Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys". If that's been checked you have to use the "fn" key to make the F1-F12 keys perform their special functions like display brightness, keyboard illumination, etc.
You might find it worthwhile to try and find some recent HASP dongle drivers. Lack of drivers has been an issue in the past with Xrite and -dare I say it- Gretag devices. Edmund On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Barry Rudick <barryr@azphoto.com> wrote:
I have not seen any burn-in or ghosting at all.
I did notice that the brightness function keys do not seem to work. The brightness on the System Prefs, Display pane does affect the brightness.
I tried to cal and profile last night.
Results:
The iProfile Lion Display app will not work with the old iOne Pro. Not surprised.
iProfiler will connect to the old iOne Pro. I used an USB hub for that. The bad: iProfile must be licensed before it will save the resulting profile. Bummer. The spectro does not act as a dongle. This does not make me happy although I understand that Xrite needs an incentive to offer system upgrades. However, after buying and upgrading Profilemaker over the years it gets a little tiresome. To gain Lion functionality I would have to spend about $1000.00? To profile a monitor? No thanks.
Now, we do need to upgrade our spectro to the new one. However, at this time the RIP's Colorburst's Spectravision Pro (Xrite software) does not recognize the new iOne Pro2. So, no incentive to buy.
We will probably keep a Mac with Leopard to run our RGB profiles through Profilemaker.
I will personally buy a display colorimeter to handle the Retina and external NEC.
Our fleet of Mac Pro's are at Snow Leopard and we will probably resist going to Lion for the foreseeable future.
Cheers,
Barry
On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
On 26 Jun 2012, at 21:13, Barry Rudick wrote:
I have received my MacBook Pro Retina. Very nice.
No problems with the burn in that some other users are reporting then?
< http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120623_2-MacBookPro-Retina-screen...
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This was several months ago with a beta device. It may be functional now. Barry On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Graeme Gill <graeme2@argyllcms.com> wrote:
Barry Rudick wrote:
Colorburst's Spectravision Pro (Xrite software) does not recognize the new iOne Pro2. So, no
Thats' a bit surprising - the i1pro2 seems highly backwards compatible.
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Andrew Rodney
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Barry Rudick
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C D Tobie
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Graeme Gill
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John Gnaegy
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Martin Orpen