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>>I wasn't quite clear with the workaround explanation. I actually do change the profile of the second display (the one I calibrated) and not the first display. I just mentioned that I do this on the first display to note that I am not switching applications on a single monitor.

Still, applying a profile under Windows at the OS level will not flash the video calibration data to the Video LUTs, as it will on a Mac. So the idea that this will allow you to measure the "calibrated' state would be incorrect, not to mention that our current software would remove the LUT corrections before measuring anyways, as that is the way it was designed. 

>>So I am still confused why the calibration did not go right. I also tried making a profile only and based on this trying to set certain luminance values on the screen, measured with a Minolta luminance meter, and these did not give the correct tone response curve either.

Why would a profile built to just define the current state of the display, not calibrate it, reduce a correct tone response curve? You told it not to. 

>> Is there a reason why the hardware tone response curve as shown in the file 'before_calibration.jpg' in the photos section is too difficult to calibrate or create a good profile of that can be used in a CMS?

I don't quite understand the question. Correcting the TRC, per channel, is a calibration function. Not a profile function. Where the "too difficult" part comes in is not clear to me.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@datacolor.com
www.datacolor.com

On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:07 PM, "gerard_culemborg" <yahoo@...> wrote:

> I wasn't quite clear with the workaround explanation. I actually do change the profile of the second display (the one I calibrated) and not the first display. I just mentioned that I do this on the first display to note that I am not switching applications on a single monitor.
> 
> So I am still confused why the calibration did not go right. I also tried making a profile only and based on this trying to set certain luminance values on the screen, measured with a Minolta luminance meter, and these did not give the correct tone response curve either. Is there a reason why the hardware tone response curve as shown in the file 'before_calibration.jpg' in the photos section is too difficult to calibrate or create a good profile of that can be used in a CMS?