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Re: [colorvision_group] Differences in calibrating two monitors

2006-06-03 by randy

Hello CD,

First off, I am running version 2.1-7  is this the latest?


>
> A six year old monitor... wow, I hope its only seen intermittant use! 
> You say you have "eyeballed" the black and whitepoints. I assume you 
> would match black and white luminances using the Spyder and the 
> Spyder2PRO software to match these, by determining which has the 
> higher black, which has the lower white, and targeting these values on 
> both.
>
> You are choosing gamma 1.8, which is indeed yellower, unless you are 
> working in the dark. But other than the color of white, that gets 
> cancelled out by Photoshop, so I can't imagine you actually get more 
> shadow detail by throwing away levels then you do by using a gamma 
> closer to CRT native, and throwing away a lot fewer levels.
>
> If, in the end you can't quite match the two, and wish to hand tweak 
> the difference, you would create a custom curve for the older monitor, 
> and increase the blue curve slightly, to reduce yellow.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
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