Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Yes, Spyder3Elite has some advantages for LCD, and even more  
advantages for wide gamut and LED backlight LCDs. It also has some  
functions designed to make Vista less problematic.

As for staying away from Cinema Displays; you are looking at this from  
a CRT point of view, where there were of hardware calibration  
controls. LCDs simply don't have (and don't really need) all those  
tuning adjustments.

C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@...

On Jun 1, 2009, at 8:10 PM, malodiver@... wrote:

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> Thanks for input. Some of this is probably just getting use to the  
> major change in brightness of the Apple Cinema LCD. Beautiful for  
> most things but not the best for matching print media. I am using  
> Windows which means my only monitor control is the one brightness  
> button on the monitor. My prior CRT had great fine tuning capability  
> and my OS color control was unimportant. I continue to tweak my  
> workspace environment and twiddle with the calibration luminosity  
> and white point settings. A price I must pay to move into new  
> monitor turf. I have taken my monitor calibration for granted for a  
> long time now and suddenly Im a newbie running test calibration  
> prints and changing my printer profiles. I may think about Spyder 3,  
> if it is more usable with the LCD environment. I would recommend  
> staying away from the Apple Cinema monitors for photo editing and  
> find one with more fine tuning capabilities, especially if using a  
> Windows system. PS: Vista color control sucks, I went back to XP as  
> it wont kick out the calibration, every time a security warning  
> comes up.
> Malodiver
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