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My screen an Eizo L997 has 7 controls-Brightness,Temp Kelvin presets,Gain,Saturation,Hue,Gama,6 colours and reset.How do I use that lot correctly within Spyder 3?

On May 14, 2009, at 7:15 AM, antonywyeth wrote:

> My screen an Eizo L997 has 7 controls-Brightness,Temp Kelvin  
> presets,Gain,Saturation,Hue,Gama,6 colours and reset.How do I use  
> that lot correctly within Spyder 3?

This is a rather old model (its been on the market nearly five years)  
so I've never used it specifically. But with LCDs there is not a lot  
of magic. Mostly you are best off avoiding almost all controls, as  
there are not actual hardware functions for them to control... so it  
all ends up getting done with the same RGB valves, and as such doesn't  
do much for you. This display may be an exception, but I'd still start  
off by trying it the same way as most any other LCD. Reset to factory  
defaults, then set the Kelvin value to the number closest to your  
target value (which will either do nothing, or give you a close  
starting point) leave everything else alone, tell the software that  
your display has a backlight control (if this isn't hte first time the  
software has seen the display, this will require running the Edit  
Display function from the Go menu), and then use either the Ambient  
Light wizard, or the Measure Luminance mode to define the target  
whitepoint. This will then prompt you at the appropriate time to  
adjust the brightness/backlight control to that luminance level. Works  
great that way with my older Eizo display...

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
> 
> On May 14, 2009, at 7:15 AM, antonywyeth wrote:
> 
> > My screen an Eizo L997 has 7 controls-Brightness,Temp Kelvin  
> > presets,Gain,Saturation,Hue,Gama,6 colours and reset.How do I use  
> > that lot correctly within Spyder 3?
> 
> This is a rather old model (its been on the market nearly five years)  
> so I've never used it specifically. But with LCDs there is not a lot  
> of magic. Mostly you are best off avoiding almost all controls, as  
> there are not actual hardware functions for them to control... so it  
> all ends up getting done with the same RGB valves, and as such doesn't  
> do much for you. This display may be an exception, but I'd still start  
> off by trying it the same way as most any other LCD. Reset to factory  
> defaults, then set the Kelvin value to the number closest to your  
> target value (which will either do nothing, or give you a close  
> starting point) leave everything else alone, tell the software that  
> your display has a backlight control (if this isn't hte first time the  
> software has seen the display, this will require running the Edit  
> Display function from the Go menu), and then use either the Ambient  
> Light wizard, or the Measure Luminance mode to define the target  
> whitepoint. This will then prompt you at the appropriate time to  
> adjust the brightness/backlight control to that luminance level. Works  
> great that way with my older Eizo display...
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> CDTobie@...
> 
> 
> 
> Datacolor
> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
>
 David, Thank you for your reply.I think that my screen has more control than a normal LCD( I enclose link to specks.http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/l997/spec.asp)and would like to know how to use them with the Spyder 3.
Thanks Tony.