Has your friend actually measured his display Luminance to be 700 cd/m2? That value seems pretty high. If I was at his place, I would leave everything to defaults in the nvidia control panel -- all linear. Let basICColor Display manage the video card trough other structures. Best / Roger -----Original Message----- From: colorsync-users [mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=videotron.ca@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Anthony R Sanna Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 1:56 PM To: 'colorsync-users?lists.apple.com' List <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> Subject: Screen Calibration I’m helping a friend get started with Color Management and the starting point is profiling his display. I use Eizos with the popup colorimeter and haven’t looked at the market for calibrators in a long time. I need some advice on what to recommend to him. His situation is also complicated by his graphics card which is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, which I gather is a higher end gaming card. He’s on a PC and the Nvidea has its own control panel to set the parameters for the display. I didn’t get a good look at all the options, but it seems like a set of controls to made to screw up the simple profiling of the display. I’m not sure if he plays games with it, but he does want to get into photo editing. His original question to me was “why are my prints always too dark” when he claims to have the display set at 700cd/m2. What equipment should I recommend to get him started? Thanks. Tony - Anthony Sanna (608) 206-3134 asanna@ismaldo.com <mailto:asanna@ismaldo.com> www.tonysanna.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. colorsync-users mailing list (colorsync-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/colorsync-users/graxx%40videotron.ca This email sent to graxx@videotron.ca
On Mar 18, 2018, at 3:47 PM, Roger Breton <graxx@videotron.ca> wrote:
If I was at his place, I would leave everything to defaults in the nvidia control panel -- all linear. Let basICColor Display manage the video card trough other structures.
Thank you all for your help. Since my friend is a beginner at this - just starting to take pictures and learn Photoshop - would one of the two X-Rite packages, i1Photo Pro2 or the ColorMunki Photo give him all the hardware/software to profile his display and paper? I don’t know what his budget is, but is the i1Photo Pro2 substantially a better package? Tony - Anthony Sanna (608) 206-3134 asanna@ismaldo.com <mailto:asanna@ismaldo.com> www.tonysanna.com
On Mar 19, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Anthony R Sanna <asanna@ismaldo.com> wrote:
[I]s the i1Photo Pro2 substantially a better package?
Yes, but that doesn't mean that the ColorMunki is unworthy of consideration. The 'Munki is a superb value and does everything most people use a spectrometer for. If you know what the differences are between the two and why you'd need the features the i1 Pro has that the 'Munki doesn't, then the choice is obvious. And if the price difference is insignificant to your budget, the i1 Pro is the safe choice. But if you're like most people and are just trying to get your monitor and prints to match, if you don't know nor care about all the esoterica of color science, the 'Munki was designed exactly for you. Consider the difference between a point-and-shoot pocket camera (or, these days, a phone camera) and a DSLR. Almost all photos are taken with the pocket cameras -- for very good reason. The cameras are superlative, and many great photos have been made with them. Most people would be very unhappy with a DSLR -- and, indeed, most would take _worse_ pictures with one. But there are very significant reasons why most professional photographers use them despite the significantly added cost (etc.). Cheers, b&
On Mar 19, 2018, at 10:16 AM, Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com> wrote:
On Mar 19, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Anthony R Sanna <asanna@ismaldo.com> wrote:
[I]s the i1Photo Pro2 substantially a better package?
Yes, but that doesn't mean that the ColorMunki is unworthy of consideration. The 'Munki is a superb value and does everything most people use a spectrometer for.
Indeed and ideal for those who also wish to make output profiles as well as calibrate and profile their displays. Otherwise, the X-rite i1Display Pro cost less and it's a bit more ideal for the process of display calibration as outlined here by X-RIte and Karl Lang: http://lumita.com/site_media/work/whitepapers/files/xrite-wp-3a.pdf The other possibility that can be eventually brain dead (set it and forget it once you know the settings, the big work here) is a SpectraView with the same instrument. That one can build multiple calibrations and profiles, load them on the fly for different needs, even cooler! I would only suggest the i1 Display Pro over lesser expensive options with the SAME hardware but slower, and IMHO crippled software when the goal is a display to print match. Andrew Rodney http://www.digitaldog.net/
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