LaCie monitors are rebadged NEC at a higher price, which explains why it
is so good. Are you using the LaCie Calibration system, or a third party
software and colorimeter?
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On 7/10/12 8:53 PM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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>
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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&Support
>>I
>>D=3273>
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
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