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Optimal Viewing Conditions?

2006-03-24 by Tom

Ok ...

So for color matching which one exactly was optimal lux for viewing? 
I have a new LCD monitor which (and this is semi-amusing) is too
bright for the room.  It seems everyone is trying to sell "brighter"
monitors when that may actually NOT help you see colors and detail better.

Thanks

Tom

Re: [colorvision_group] Optimal Viewing Conditions?

2006-03-24 by Xun Wang

For LCD 140 is recommended if I remember it correctly. Or are you talking 
about ambient light?

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Re: Optimal Viewing Conditions?

2006-03-24 by Tom

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Xun Wang <xun911@...> wrote:
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> For LCD 140 is recommended if I remember it correctly. Or are you
talking 
> about ambient light?

Ambient light :-)

Re: [colorvision_group] Optimal Viewing Conditions?

2006-03-24 by CDTobie@aol.com


In a message dated 3/24/06 11:09:59 AM, ttrostel@... writes:


So for color matching which one exactly was optimal lux for viewing?

You are asking for an absolute answer to a relative question... the eye adjusts to a wide range of viewing luminances; the goal is to work with people (within reason) at the luminance levels they prefer to use, not to demand that they all conform to one standard; since many refuse to make even minimal concessions to better viewing conditions.

I have a new LCD monitor which (and this is semi-amusing) is too
bright for the room. It seems everyone is trying to sell "brighter"
monitors when that may actually NOT help you see colors and detail better.

On the beach, they will DEFINTELY help you see better color and detail... and most American offices are lit more like the beach than a prepress color correction studio. If you work in the dark, then they are definately too bright, so you need to either dim the monitor, or boost your ambient/proofing lighting. Or some mix of the two. If you are still trying to run CRTs in the same environment, then thats harnessing your new race horse to your old draft horse, and dimming the LCD (if it will dim that far!) is the only choice.

Please refer to the Spyder2PRO v2.2 ambient light help posted in the files section for a discussion of lighting levels, relation of ambient luminance to monitor luminance and monitor whitepoint, viewing condition recommendations, and other related factors.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

Re: [colorvision_group] Optimal Viewing Conditions?

2006-03-24 by CDTobie@aol.com


In a message dated 3/24/06 12:08:38 PM, xun911@... writes:


For LCD 140 is recommended if I remember it correctly. Or are you talking
about ambient light?


The problem about the "standard" this comes from it that it attempts to have it both ways; to define a single viewing condition, and then to change their mind and allow brighter usage for LCDs, without changing the other elements that need to be changed when using a higher luminance monitor. The series of related ambient light levels, monitor luminances, and whitepoints that Spyder2PRO v2.2 uses offer a reasonable sliding scale; rather than a fixed point setting that has been wiggled until its way too loose at one end...

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

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