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Thanks for the enlightenment. Have a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.

pjs 
"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it.
I think photography will always be chemical."
Annie Leibovitz 

no hablo mac J  

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From: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of CDTobie
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 8:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [colorvision_group] Screensaver/Sleep problem...
 

 The improvements were definately more difficult than the patience; that part was easy. <G> 



As for the three functions, and their variables:


Certification is most likely to see use in larger studios and other companies. Tighter specs simply mean that the standards for CheckCAL and ReCAL are more stringent, and the Spyder icon will display as out of standards (slashed) sooner, than if a more liberal value had been chosen. I don't anticipate many individual users choosing this option.


ReCAL will nag you to recalibrate sooner, if a shorter timeframe is chosen, we've had options for this for years. Once a month is reasonable for many users, but some feel that weekly is the longest they are willing to go.


LUT checking is only an issue if you have things going on that might interfere. For most users once an hour is fine (certainly better then only at startup, as has traditionally been the case); especially on the Mac. But if you aren't doing things where the check competes for cycles, there is no reason to lower this setting. 


Overall, I'd say its mostly those of an engineering mindset that will worry much about any of these settings, unless there is a specific issue that effects them. They are added for the special cases, with the assumption that most users will ignore them and leave them at defaults.


C. David Tobie