Timeline for Should I return my new wide-gamut monitor or buy an expensive calibrator?
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| May 28, 2014 at 0:35 | comment | added | B Shaw | @Skunkness - You mentioned mainstream users & perhaps a photography crowd. The photography crowd's preferences may skew towards similar set ups as you, but mainstream users are diverse. Once, I was excited about a rich, warm image of a sunset scene I shot in Yellowstone. At least that's how it looked on my tightly calibrated monitor. My photography forum buddy said, truly politely, 'you really cranked this one up'. I didn't understand, until I looked at it from my wife's uncalibrated work laptop - the scene was almost garish, colors seemed almost out of gamut. Not my intent. Lesson learned. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 18:52 | comment | added | Nothingtoseehere | @Skunkness It is a colorimeter. Advantage though with this device is it has multiple bands (7 I think) so it can determine better which may calibrate a system. Problem is that sometimes none work best. A full on spectro is best, but can still result in a poor metameric match, due to the spikey nature of backlights. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Skunkness | Also, @RHall - do you know if the Spyder is a spectrophotometer, or just a colorimeter? Do you have a recommendation as to which brand I should buy? | |
| May 27, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Skunkness | @BShaw - I was thinking about that as well. I had never notice d a discrepancy in my photos from any of the other device I use in the household, but then again, they are all macs. I'm also assuming that at least half of mainstream users use macs as well, though the photography crowd may be more skewed to monitors like mine. So I guess I could calibrate both my mac and my ViewSonic, or I could calibrate my ViewSonic to look like my mac (are both these things possible?). The former would certainly be more pro, but now that you mention it, maybe that's not what I need. Any thoughts? | |
| May 27, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | B Shaw | @Skunkness - just so you know, I support what R Hall has described if you are interested in trying to match monitors. I would also recommend that you consider if matching those monitors/devices is your end goal. That is, if you know your audience will be using the same type of devices with the same characteristics. That type of decision might affect your approach to this. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 22:33 | comment | added | Nothingtoseehere | @Skunkness the real solution is both a more expensive actual spectrophotometer to calibrate your display, and software adjustments that allow you to adjust the displays colors and white point to remove those differences caused by the different light sources. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 21:23 | comment | added | Skunkness | I did manually calibrate both monitors at the same time and created new ICC profiles for my new monitor, but though there was definitely improvement, there still seems to be slight tonal differences that Ic an't get right. The ViewSonic is slightly yellower and the apple is slightly more purple. It's not just warmth. Anyway, so you think I should go in for a more expensive external calibrator? | |
| May 25, 2014 at 18:19 | history | answered | Nothingtoseehere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |