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Re: [Digital BW] Calibration . . . Monaco, Spyder, Gretag?

2004-12-16 by ferdinand_paris

I have the Monaco Optis XR Pro.  I'm happy with it, although I'm not 
a sufficiently expert user for this have much bearing on your 
decision.

The reason I chose the Monaco was a review I found online somewhere 
which said that all these devices work well with new monitors, but 
the Monaco did the best when working with old monitors (I'm a 
cheapskate, and so have old monitors).  The old Spyder did very 
badly with old monitors.

However since reading this group, I have wondered whether I should 
have bought the Gretag-M Eye-one, because of the way that people use 
it to linearise QTR.  I confess that I don't fully understand how 
this is done, and therefore have no idea whether I can do this with 
the Monaco.

F_P


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bhhc" 
<tawow@s...> wrote:
> I am open to any of them. .  . . the only reason I asked the 
question was
> that I could get a better deal on the Optix, but as I mentioned it 
seems
> that virtually no one has experience with them (though to date 
there have
> been 2 posts that show otherwise . . . thanks folks). The lack of 
people
> using the Optix unsettles me a little bit . . . I get the 
impression they
> come pre-packed with the bubonic plague or some other dreadful 
potentiality!
> 
> all the best
> Paul Aparycki
> 
> 
> 
> Paul  -
> 
> Have you thrown the new Spyder 2 Pro into the mix?  It seems to 
have
> potential (per the writeups).  I believe that one or two on this 
list may
> already have one.
> 
> Tom Baker

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