Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On 4/16/06 7:02 AM, "hanson102" <hanson102@...> wrote:

> 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.


You haven't mentioned what type of monitor...LCD or CRT?

Unless you have a very high end LCD than it's best to avoid the RGB sliders.
Set them to 100% and let the Spyder build the profile. I have a medium
priced LCD and tried many different settings, here's what works for me:

Gamma: 2.2
White Point: Native

Luminance Mode: Measured
Black Lum: 0.30
White Lum: 130.00
Gray Balanced Calibration: ON

Just for the heck of it I did try setting the RGB sliders, but grayscales
had color banding. The above settings work well.

If you have a CRT try using the 6500 preset and don't worry about the RGB
sliders. You might have to try a few different settings until the monitor
looks good. My test is viewing a 100 patch grayscale and checking for
non-neutral patches.

Also read the help files...the latest one is in the Files section here.