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Spyder2Pro on a Viewsonic CRT Monitor

2006-04-16 by hanson102

on my attempt to calibrate my monitor, i encountered a problem with
adjust color temperature.  after my spyder did it's preliminary
readings, it was asking me to adjust the RGB sliders to align my RGB
column readings and decrease my difference rate from 4+ down to 0.5

since i was using a preset of 6500K of the monitor, i had to swtich to
manual adjustment to achieve this.  however, my problem is, my RED
slider is already maxed out (it is the column with the lowest value),
my BLUE slider (2nd highest column), i can easily bring down.  worse,
my GREEN slider is fixed by the monitor and i cannot adjust at all
(which is the column with the highest value).

questions:
1. does this mean that my monitor is incompatible?
2. since i cannot align my columns, and achieve 0.5 difference, what
will be my consequence?  spyder2PRO proceeded with its succeeding
calibration and gave me a profile that is quite reddish.  i believe
there is something wrong with this.

any help will be highly appreciated!

thanks!

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