When my faithful Trinitron monitor finally gave up the ghost, I replaced it
with a LaCie LCD, as there were no quality CRT's left. I must say that when
I profile the LaCie, it doesn't ever seem to change much, but when I make a
print, it looks just like the screen. Who know why? I just am hoping the
LaCie outlives me.
Bill Pearce
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From: Chris Crawford
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:13 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Calibrating & profiling an LCD monitor
LCDs really cannot be calibrated, except for overall brightness. They have
a fixed gamma and color temperature, so changing those just reduces the
number of possible colors and grays it can display. That's why LCDs are so
poor for graphics work. Only a few high-end models made for this kind of
work really can be properly calibrated, because they use internal 12-bit
lookup tables. My NEC PA241W does this, but only with NEC's calibration
software and colorimeter (you can use other colorimeters, but every review
I have seen got better results with the NEC one, which is made for them by
X-Rite). Plus, it has a wide gamut that covers most of the Adobe RGB color
space.
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On 7/10/12 7:53 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Recently I was complaining about having difficulty calibrating my Dell
>LCD monitor. There was some discussion that I probably needed new
>hardware able to work with an LCD. What I did instead was skip the
>calibration step, select one of several pre-set color temperatures and
>then proceeded with the profiling. Despite some folks thinking I had a
>bias against blue on some of Tina's images I've felt all along that my
>monitor's color was just fine following the procedure I did.
>
>I did it because it was the only thing I could do. But now I've
>discovered that I had it right all along (even if only by accident :-))
>
>This is an old posting on Xrite's web site for my (now discontinued)
>product discussing how to handle an LCD monitor. As it turns out,
>calibration is a holdover from CRTs and not really necessary on LCD.
><http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=652&Action=support&SupportI
>D=3273>
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
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