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Dell 2407

2006-12-11 by jwhitebox2000

My Dell 2407 is way too bright. (they all are)  Calibration doesn't 
help much.  Before I calibrate it again, I'm wondering what presets 
might be recommended.  If I dial back the brightness, I lose shadow 
detail.  If I turn down the RGB controls equally, will I get better 
results?  Suggestions?
JK

Re: [colorvision_group] Dell 2407

2006-12-11 by CDTobie@aol.com

In a message dated 12/11/06 12:46:46 PM, jwhitebox@... writes:

My Dell 2407 is way too bright. (they all are) Calibration doesn't
help much. Before I calibrate it again, I'm wondering what presets
might be recommended. If I dial back the brightness, I lose shadow
detail. If I turn down the RGB controls equally, will I get better
results? Suggestions?

You will lose overall contrast range if you lower brightness hugely, but other than that, just calibrating at the new setting should offer good detail throughout the range. You need reasonable ambient light for a bright display, if you use it in the dark, it will certainly look bad! Run the ambient light feature in Spyder2PRO, if you own that, and choose a white luminance value in its recommended range.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

Re: Dell 2407

2006-12-14 by flyer007_99

On my 2405 I did a combination of both.  I found that it works very
well.  One thing I noticed was that there was a considerable warmup
time for the monitor.  I found this strange since I thought the
backlight on a LCD should be fairly constant.  Only drawback is when
playing games.  I have yet tried to use the video driver to switch
profiles when game launches.








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> My Dell 2407 is way too bright. (they all are)  Calibration doesn't 
> help much.  Before I calibrate it again, I'm wondering what presets 
> might be recommended.  If I dial back the brightness, I lose shadow 
> detail.  If I turn down the RGB controls equally, will I get better 
> results?  Suggestions?
> JK
>

Re: [colorvision_group] Re: Dell 2407

2006-12-14 by CDTobie@aol.com

In a message dated 12/14/06 9:12:07 AM, benjonesma@... writes:

On my 2405 I did a combination of both. I found that it works very
well. One thing I noticed was that there was a considerable warmup
time for the monitor. I found this strange since I thought the
backlight on a LCD should be fairly constant. Only drawback is when
playing games. I have yet tried to use the video driver to switch
profiles when game launches.

On Windows (and this sounds like Windows you are describing), many games bypass the videocard corrections in order to speed things up, and control video themselves. So you may not get the color calibration corrections under such games. Same is true for Windows videostreams, which is why its difficult to color manage Windows home theater systems without SpyderTV. On the Mac, the OS loads the video corrections from your profile for you, and they are used for games and videostreams as well as other programs, so you can play games, or run a home theater, on a Mac via Spyder2PRO, without needing SpyderTV.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...m
www.colorvision.com

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