Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On May 22, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Doug Kerr wrote:

> One of my colleagues on several camera forums (a "recognized expert"  
> in color management) vehemently believes that it is most attractive  
> to apply no calibration to the monitor chain but rather to allow the  
> ICC profile to do all the mediation to the monitor's native color  
> space. (I guess what this means is that we should leave the CLUT's  
> in the video board all with straight lines.) He is evidently only  
> concerned with display performance under profile-aware applications.

I won't name names, since you didn't; but one "recognized expert" has  
been promoting this rather fringy idea for years... <G>
>
> I don't myself subscribe to this position, but often I have to help  
> my colleagues do various things with various tools.
>
> I have suspected that OptiCAL (which I used with a Spyder "1") would  
> do this for us if we started the process by selecting  
> "Profile..." (rather than "Calibrate&Profile" from the File menu. Is  
> that so? (This might just result in a profile with no vcgt tag - I  
> haven't had time to try that yet.)
>
> Then, will Spyder 3 Elite allow us to do the same thing?

Spyder3Elite has an Expert Console (designed for "recognized experts"  
<G>) which allows you to profile without calibration, thus producing  
the desired (but not necessarily desirable) results you describe; I  
actually had him in mind when I designed that feature...
>
> If not (and in any case, of interest to Spyder 3 Pro users, like  
> myself at the moment), is there a target definition (*tgt file) that  
> will produce this result? I note, for example, that there are  
> targets supplied that leave the native white point in place (but  
> leave the calibrated display with a certain target gamma curve, not  
> the native one).

Its not available in Pro, as its an Expert Console-only function.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
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