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Re: [colorvision_group] Re: dual monitors - G5
2007-01-23 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 1/22/07 6:35:39 PM, deanwork2003@... writes:
What is strange for me though is that I can't get any red content out
of the Lacie when I plug it in the second slot, even though it is a
great monitor otherwise. I mean in this configuration with the Apple
manual calibration assistant, Lacie software, or Colorvision noting
will budge it. The gamma looks flat too. It has to have something to
do with the way these two slots work together on the board.
Like I mentioned, I couldn't calibrate two CRTS on this G5 machine
either. But either monitor works just right in the first slot.
So, either I am going to have to buy an inexpenisve LCD for my tools
or buy a new graphic card ( or both) or just work with one monitor
because the uglyness of the second screen is just to distracting for
me or my clients.
No doubt a second videocard (even a low cost one) would do the trick. But on a Mac as new as a G5 the FIRST videocard should be capable of providing two calibration slots... so its a mystery to me.
The warning about CRT/LCD combos is mostly for those using an expensive CRT, and an LCD as a palette monitor; if the LCD is brighter than the CRT, it will bias your vision's whitepoint, and the CRT won't look right. Doing it the other way around, with a brighter calbrated LCD, and a CRT palette monitor, won't cause that problem, it just looks odd... in terms of the deeper CRT, and the dimmer CRT screen, and the difference if focal plane and sharpness between the two. With the cost of a cheap LCD these days, I can't see bothering with a mix.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com